MI SR0215

Designates November 17 as "World Pancreatic Cancer Day" in Michigan.

An estimated 53,070 people in the United States will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2016, with 41,780 expected deaths.

Pancreatic cancer surpassed breast cancer to become the third leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. and is projected to become the second leading cause by 2020.

Pancreatic cancer has a five-year relative survival rate of just 8 percent, the lowest among major cancers, with 71 percent of patients dying within the first year of diagnosis.

Approximately 1,520 pancreatic cancer deaths are expected to occur in Michigan in 2016.