According to the National Cancer Institute, about 37,000 people in U.S will die because of pancreatic cancer and 43,000 new cases of the disease diagnose along 2010.

The study found that pancreatic cancer spreads much more slowly than has been thought. Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue, MD, PhD, a pancreatic cancer researcher, say that the disease may develop in two decade or more.

One of pancreatic cancer risk trigger is cigarette smoke. Exposure to cigarette smoke believed may elevate the risk of pancreatic cancer.

A study that published in the June 2010 on Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention journal, showed that regular smokers and ex-smokers were 82 % and 34 %  higher risk of pancreatic cancer respectively, compared to never cigarette smokers.

After studying 120,852 men and women who completed a baseline questionnaire in 1986, Mirjam M. Heinen at Maastricht University Medical Centre and colleagues found each increment of 10 years of smoking was associated with 15 % increased pancreatic cancer and each increment of 10 cigarettes per day was linked to 8 % increased risk.

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