Question: what is the difference between exocrine and endocrine pancreatic cancer?
Answer: About 95% of pancreatic cancers are exocrine cell cancers, called adenocarcinoma. These cancers usually start in the head of the pancreas. Endocrine cell cancers -- or pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors -- are slower growing tumors with a different prognosis and treatment than pancreatic adenocarcinoma.