WLWT: Jerry Springer’s death puts pancreatic cancer, called a silent killer, under microscope

“It’s a silent cancer, and that’s why it’s a bad cancer,” he said. “Unfortunately, pancreas cancer does not get diagnosed until later stages because it remains asymptomatic until it gets to the later stages.”

Ahmad and his colleagues are doing research on pancreatic cancer in multiple labs, and they’re using screening programs to check people who have a family history of the disease. Their goal is to significantly boost the disease’s survival rate.

“We have labs looking at how the pancreas cancer cells survive, how they multiply and spread and ways to stop it,” Ahmad said. “It’s one of the most deadly cancers that we treat.”

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WLWT-TV reported that doctors are working to learn more specifics about what causes pancreatic cancer. One of the biggest causes, according to Ahmad, is smoking cigarettes.

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