The global, regional burden of pancreatic cancer and its attributable risk factors from 1990 to 2021.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pancreatic cancer is the 12th most common type of cancer, and the sixth leading cause of cancer-related mortality, worldwide. Up-to-date statistics on pancreatic cancer would provide us with a better understanding of epidemiology and identify the causative risk factors for the prevention of this disease.

Methods

The degree and change patterns of exposure as well as the attributable cancer burden, including incidence, mortality, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), and prevalence in global and regional, by sex, age, year, for pancreatic cancer, with the data extracted from the Global Burden of Diseases Study (GBD) 2021. All data analyses were conducted using linear regression analysis and the Joinpoint software (version 5.0.1).

Results

In 2021, 508,533 ne

SUBMITTER: Yu W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11786447 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature