{"id":85374,"date":"2019-10-26T17:12:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T11:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11194"},"modified":"2019-10-26T17:12:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T11:42:48","slug":"pancreatic-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pancreatic-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Pancreatic Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The The Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 for pancreatic cancer has been published in The Lancet.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key takeaways from the study:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Pancreatic cancer what was once a rare disease, is now a growing cause of cancer mortality worldwide.From 1.96 lakh incidences in 1990, these rose to 4.41 lakh in 2017.<\/li><li>The burden of pancreatic cancer is higher in higher income countries when compared to low income countries.<\/li><li>The reason for low death rates in low-income countries is shorter life-expectancy and poor access to diagnostic facilities.As lifespan increases, so does the risk of pancreatic cancer.<\/li><li>For India, the death rate due to pancreatic has increased by over five times.India has the highest numbers among South Asian nations and makes up for more than 50% of the cases.<\/li><li>Pakistan comes second in the South Asian region while Bhutan had the least incidents and deaths in the region<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Pancreas:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The pancreas is an organ located behind the stomach in the upper left abdomen.<\/li><li>It has two main functions (a)an exocrine function that helps in digestion and (b)endocrine function that regulates blood sugar.<\/li><li>Pancreatic cancer refers to tumors that start in the cells of the pancreas.<\/li><li>The cancer develops when cells grow in an uncontrolled manner and form masses or tumors in the pancreas instead of growing into healthy pancreatic tissue.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The The Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 for pancreatic cancer has been published in The Lancet. Facts: Key takeaways from the study: The Pancreatic cancer what was once a rare disease, is now a growing cause of cancer mortality worldwide.From 1.96 lakh incidences in 1990, these rose to 4.41 lakh in 2017. The burden&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pancreatic-cancer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pancreatic Cancer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2709],"class_list":["post-85374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-pancreatic-cancer","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704354869},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}