“Weight control and exercise may protect pancreatic cancer” reported by the studies of cancer of the pancreas by ‘Johns Hopkins Health Alerts’.Pancreatic cancer is difficult to detect is the fourth leading cause of cancer related deaths in United States. Five years after the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer only 4% of people are still alive.

Risk Factors of Pancreatic Cancer

Only Known risk factor was cigarette smoking and it is controllable. Lifestyle changes proved to reduce the risks of heart attack, diabetes and breast, colon, prostrate and rectum cancers may also prevent pancreatic cancer according to recent research. These measures are important for the people with a family history of pancreatic cancer.

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