New Study Finds Pancreatic Cancer Rates Rising in Women Under 55

“Alcohol use is associated with most cancers,” says Anton Bilchik, M.D., Ph.D., a surgical oncologist and division chair of general surgery at Providence Saint John’s Health Center and chief of medicine and director of the Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Program at Saint John’s Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, Calif. “A recent study suggested that no alcohol is safe and the pancreas is particularly susceptible to the effects of alcohol.”

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