There was an unexpected rise in pancreatic cancer among young people in the United States from 2000 to 2018. The illness can be untreatable by the time it is discovered, a death sentence.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most difficult cancers to treat — and the deadliest. Fewer than 10% of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer live beyond five years. A few factors account for this.

Pancreatic cancer took the life of Detroit's beloved Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin along with "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, ...