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A member asked:
How common is pancreatic cancer in patients <25 or younger, with no family history of it?
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Extremely rare: Pancreatic cancer is extremely rare in this demographic.
Answered 4/15/2012
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Highly uncommon: Pancreatic cancer (epithelial malignancy) in patients <25 and younger w/o family hx is unheard of, if not uncommon. However, individuals with lymphoma (malignancy of hematopoetic origin) is not uncommon in young individuals and it can occur in any part of the body, including the pancreas. I have seen a young patient who was immunocompromised who presented with a lymphoma of the pancreas.
Answered 6/23/2012
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I've never heard of: Or seen a case under 30, and it rises with each decade after that. There are rare familial clusters, and be aware that head, neck body duct/parenchymal cancers are indeed different than tail cancers that can b neuroendocrine hormone producing cancers with very different prognosis.
Answered 4/15/2012
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Very rare: Pancreatic cancer is uncommon in young people.
Answered 2/17/2014
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