If Pancreatic is found early there is more hope than there used to be. The problem like many of the gastric cancers, it can be quite advanced before discovery.
I was told by someone, as I was going through stomach cancer treatment and surgery, that operating on a pancreas is like operating on a lump of warm butter — too little structure — like trying to get egg shell bits out of raw egg.
When my wife had her PC surgery, the process took so long because getting “clean margins” was tough because it was mushy.