Push for progress on pancreatic cancer
You won't see it on a billboard or targeted in a police blitz, but you're more likely to die of pancreatic cancer in Australia than from a road accident.
Pancreatic cancer claims five Australian lives every day as one of the nation's most lethal diseases and yet it has remained off the health radar - in part, because of the grim prognosis of sufferers and no significant development in treatment.
"Despite considerable research efforts into pancreatic cancer over the last decade, very little progress has been made in the treatment of this disease," says Professor David Goldstein, a medical oncologist and director of the Sydney-based GI CANCER Institute.
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