Dr. Kimmerle Cohena hepatopancreaticobiliary surgeon and surgical oncologist with Palm Beach Health Network Physician Group (PBHNPG), Vice Chief of Surgery at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center and on-staff at Good Samaritan Medical Center tells us, “Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of all major cancers. It is currently the third leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States, after lung and colon. It is difficult to detect because its symptoms may not be present until late in the disease.”
Debashish BoseMD PhD FACS, Director of Surgical Oncology, Director of the Center for Hepatobiliary Disease, Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore says, “People should know that, unfortunately, pancreas cancer carries a very poor prognosis and is on the rise. The pancreas is a gland that makes digestive enzymes and hormones that control blood sugar and the activities of the digestive tract.
