Improving the Nutritional Status of a Patient with Pancreatic Cancer (PC) - Juniper Publishers
Improving the Nutritional Status of a Patient with Pancreatic Cancer (PC) by Chimene Castor in NFSIJ- Juniper publishers
Incidence & Mortality: Cancer is one
of the major leading causes of death in US (US), second only to cardiovascular
disease [1,2]. PC (PC) is the most common fatal cancer after lung, colorectal
and breast cancer. It is projected to be the second leading cause of cancer
death by 2030 [3]. Most PC patients will die within the first year of diagnosis
[4]. Overall the mortality rates of most cancers such as lung, prostate,
breast, cervix and colon/rectum have been reduced, but the mortality rate for
pancreatic rates have been slowly increasing. The overall five-year survival
rate of PC is only 7.2% as compared to the overall cancer survival rate of
66.5%. PC, the 12th most common cancer in the US, is the 4th most common cause
of cancer-related deaths in both men and women in the US [2]. In 2015, about
48,960 new cases of PC out of the 1,6580,370 new cancer cases are expected to
be diagnosed. About 77% of all cancers are diagnosed in people 55 years of age
and older. Five hundred and eighty-nine thousand, four hundred and thirty Americans
are expected to die from cancer in 2015, of which an estimated 40,560 cases
will die from PC. From 2007 to 2011, the death rate for PC increased by 0.3%
per year [1]. African Americans have higher rates of PC incidence and mortality
than whites or other racial/ethnic groups [2]. PC incidence and mortality rates
also are higher in men than in women. Epidemiologic studies reveal several
disparities in cancer death rates by race and socio-economic status. In the
years 2006-2010, it was reported that African Americans had higher cancer
incidence and cancer death rates than whites or other racial/ethnic groups.
People with lower socio-economic status (SES) have disproportionately higher
cancer death rates than those with higher SES. This might be the result of poor
diet, physical inactivity, and tobacco use for people with lower SES [1,2,5,6]
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