My partner and I will be doing our cancer project on Pancreatic Cancer. More specifically, we will be researching and discussing the environmental risk factors that may increase one's chance of getting this cancer. If the available research and statistics for the environmental factors are too limited, we will expand our topic of study to include genetic risk factors.
Pancreatic cancer particularly interests me personally because of its unusually poor prognosis. Fewer than 5% of patients survive five years past the time of diagnosis, and complete remission is very rare. Clearly, there is still much work to be done in the field, which makes it even more interesting to me.
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