在20年前,对大多数人来说,胰腺癌还是一个略显陌生的词。随着近年来发病率的增加,胰腺癌以其高死亡率、低存活期的特点,渐渐进入了人们的视线。有学者通过流行病学观察发现,胰腺癌可能是一种工业化地区的疾病。例如:在美国工业发达地区的黑人男性中,发病率为15.2/10万;而像匈牙利、尼日利亚和印度等工业欠发达地区, Twenty years ago, pancreatic cancer was a slightly strange word for most people. With the increase of the incidence rate in recent years, pancreatic cancer gradually enters people’s sight with its high mortality rate and low survival period. Some scholars have found through epidemiological observation that pancreatic cancer may be a disease in an industrialized area. For example, among black men in industrially developed areas in the United States, the incidence rate is 15.2 per 100,000; while in industrially underdeveloped areas such as Hungary, Nigeria, and India,