November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month and purple is the color of pancreatic cancer awareness. The White House often projects other colors upon the building in honor of other very worthy causes. Please "Go Purple"!
Pancreatic cancer is the 4th leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States and is anticipated to become the 2nd by 2020.
Pancreatic cancer is one of the nation’s deadliest cancers with a 5-year relative survival rate of just 6 percent. An estimated
73% of patients will die in the first year of diagnosis.
in 2014, an estimated 46,420 people were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the United States, and approximately
39,590 died from the disease.
Pancreatic cancer is the 9th most commonly diagnosed cancer in women and the 11th most commonly diagnosed in men.