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Can teenagers develope pancreatic cancer?

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Yes: Not the typical type, that is the aggressive pancreatic adenocarcinoma (although anything can happen). But they can get a type of lymphoma of the pancreas, as well as some other neuroendocrine tumors.

Answered 3/14/2014

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Rarely: It would be very unusual for a teenager to develop pancreatic cancer which is primarily a disease (like most cancers) of the elderly and to a lesser degree the middle age group. Insulinoma a benign (not cancer) tumor can occur in the young including teenagers and this would be characteristically associated with episodes of hypoglycemia.

Answered 9/27/2016

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Very rare: Pancreatoblastoma (infantile pancreatic carcinoma, reported case and secondary metastatic cancer could happen more in children.

Answered 1/1/2021

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