how long can a person live with pancreatic cancer?
Pancreatic cancer is one of the few cancers for which survival has not improved substantially over nearly 40 years. Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of all major cancers. 91% of pancreatic cancer patients will die within five years of diagnosis â only 9% will survive more than five years. 74% of patients die within the first year of diagnosis. Few risk factors for developing pancreatic cancer are defined.