Pancreatic cancer is a highly lethal malignant tumor, which, 5 years after diagnosis, has a survival rate of 5-6%.
Many famous people have died, more or less recently, due to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas.
One of these is the most famous Italian lyric tenor, Luciano Pavarotti. To him, pancreatic cancer that led to his death in 2007, was diagnosed in 2006.
Another is Steve Jobs, co-founder of a very famous computer company, entrepreneur and film producer. His fight against the disease began in 2004 and ended, not without numerous sufferings, in 2011.
Yet another is the well-known actor Patrick Swayze, who starred as the protagonist of such famous films as Ghost or Dirty Dancing . In his case, the cancer was diagnosed in January 2008 and death occurred in September 2009, some 20 months later.
