Pancreatic cancer: an infectious (viral) disease?

Abstract

Aim: The rising incidence and the modest therapeutic results of pancreatic cancer is a major medical problem. The aim
of this study was to perform a meta-analysis of view case-control studies to stimulate further research in another direction on the aetiology
of this understudied malignancy.
Methods: The usual bio-statistical methods, publicly available and known, were used.
Results: Helicobacter pylori, smoking and diabetes mellitus do not contribute anything to pancreatic cancer. Chronic pancreatitis ap-
pears to be at least one cause of pancreatic cancer, while the cause of chronic pancreatitis has not been investigated. In particular,
pancreatic cancer and high blood lipid levels are excluding each other (p Value ≡ 0, 0048). Without being married no pancreatic cancer
(n = 4821; p Value ≡ 0, 00166).
Conclusion: There is some, even if very slight evidence, that pancreatic cancer is a sexually transmitted infectious (viral) disease.