The Pancreatic Cancer Paradox: How One Hidden Population Achieved the Impossible

JustusRHope.Substack ^ | January 3, 2026 | Justus R. Hope

[Twotone]

Cancer doctors have grown accustomed to good news. Over the past three decades, lung cancer deaths have plummeted by 40%. Breast cancer mortality has dropped 44%. Prostate cancer deaths have fallen by half.

Colon cancer, once a leading killer, now claims 50% fewer lives than in 1990. These victories represent billions in research funding, surgical innovations, targeted therapies, and nationwide screening campaigns—the sum total of modern medicine’s war on cancer.

Yet one malignancy refuses to follow the script.

Pancreatic cancer—the silent executioner lurking behind the stomach, wrapped around vital blood vessels, often symptomless until the final act—is not only resisting our best efforts but advancing. Between 1999 and 2023, deaths surged 70%. By 2030, it will become America’s second-leading cancer killer. The five-year survival rate hovers at a grim 12%, virtually unchanged in fifty years. For most patients, the diagnosis equals a death sentence within six months.

[who knows what evil?]

Thank you!

[null and void]

Interesting evidential medical results being reported on pancreatic stage 4 from treatment with ivermectin and fenbendazole

That's why I'm taking ivermectin and fenbendazole for another "P" organ (prostate) cancer.

[9YearLurker]

The article’s assertion that RI has top hospitals (or even is in the top tier for income) puts its other claims in doubt IMO. I’d guess the polluted rivers are more associated than causal.

[VTenigma]

That’s a very interesting comment. I’ve had 4 friends die of it in recent years. They were not obese but had 1 thing in common, they all drank crummy domestic beer to excess and we live in a cold climate. What does the cold have to do with it?

[Jeff Chandler]

I think I’ll take the contrarian view and declare that I don’t have a clue what causes Pancreatic cancer.

[Twotone]

Of course, maybe the real reason the monastery is so healthy is because there’s no estrogen around. ;-)

[sauropod]

Interesting evidential medical results being reported on pancreatic stage 4 from treatment with ivermectin and fenbendazole

Yes. Tracking this...

[who knows what evil?]

LOL...could be!

[lurk]

I spoke to a big pancreatic cancer expert. He said get a marker test, get scanned early, intently manage inflammation.

[redinIllinois]

Thanks for posting that into!!

[Glad2bnuts]

I am guessing consumption of Salmon above the normal for the lower 48. I wish we could get the 32 oz cans of salmon that we ate when we were kids. Mom used to make a salmon loaf, all the bones were in, but pressure cooked into a digestible and chewable form.