Pancreas and Biliary Cancer: Five Year Survival Rates (from the National
Cancer Institute's Physician Data Query system, July, 2002)
Favorable prognostic signs for pancreatic cancer are
low grade lesions, tumor confined to head of pancreas,
and longer duration of symptoms.
Pancreas (Three Year Survival)
| Stage I |
15 % for resectable head of pancreas
tumors; 1 % for other subsites |
| Stage II |
2% |
| Stage III |
< 2% |
| Stage IV |
< 1% |
| |
Gallbladder
| Localized |
80 % |
| Unresectable |
< 5% |
Liver
| Localized, resectable |
10-30 % |
| Unresectable |
< 1% |
Extrahepatic Bile Ducts
| Localized |
10 % |
| Unresectable |
none |
