Twelve weeks. That's all it took for pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest in the world, to take my father. It's known as the silent killer: it develops discreetly, with few symptoms at first, until it's too late to do anything.
⚠️ A silent and aggressive cancer
Pancreatic cancer receives little media attention compared to lung, breast, or colon cancer, yet it ranks among the most serious. In France, nearly 16,000 new cases are diagnosed each year, according to Public Health France (2023). Worldwide, its incidence is increasing by 2 to 3% annually , and the 5-year survival rate remains below 10% .
Diagnosis is often made too late: the average age at detection is 71 for men and 74 for women. In more than three-quarters of cases, the tumor is already inoperable. Only complete surgical removal offers a real chance of survival, hence the importance of early detection.
