The American Cancer Society’s Cancer Facts & Figures 2023, released last week, reports that the five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is now 12%, an increase of one percentage point from last year.
Technological advances are transforming our understanding of cancer, accelerating the evolution of new treatment approaches. In the past decades, researchers deploying new techniques for analyzing DNA have extended our knowledge of inherited genetic abnormalities that can predispose a person to develop colorectal and other cancers.