New pancreatic cancer test could increase survival rates to 60%

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New pancreatic cancer test could increase survival rates to 60%
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More than 85% of patients are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer when it's too late for surgery.

The world's first urine test which detects early stage pancreatic cancer could increase longer-term survival rates from 5% to 60% if successfully rolled out, the professor who developed it says.

Nearly 10,000 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer each year in the UK, but only around five in every 100 patients will live for five years or more beyond their diagnosis.

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