Assertion: pancreatic cancer's stage | /r/HasProperty | late
Facets:
value: for surgery
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Pancreatic cancer is often diagnosed at this late stage because it rarely causes symptoms until it has spread to other sites.
text: Therefore, pancreatic cancer is typically diagnosed at later stages, making long-term prognosis and survival rates much lower than other cancers.
text: For this reason, most pancreatic cancers are diagnosed at a late stage.
text: Because of this, pancreatic cancer is typically diagnosed at a late stage making treatment difficult and prognosis poor.
text: Pancreatic cancers, particularly the most common type, pancreatic adenocarcinoma, remain very difficult to treat, and are mostly diagnosed only at a stage that is too late for surgery, which is the only curative treatment.
text: Pancreatic cancer is typically diagnosed at a late stage because it doesn't cause symptoms until it's too late.
text: In many cases, there are no symptoms in pancreatic cancer until its late stages.
text: But many pancreatic cancers are detected in later stages because when the tumor is small, it often does not produce symptoms.
text: Pancreatic cancer is often diagnosed at later stages, when the cancer has grown around major blood vessels or spread to other organs.