Characteristics of early‐onset pancreatic cancer and its association with familial pancreatic cancer and hereditary pancreatic cancer syndromes

The incidence of pancreatic cancer is high among those in their sixties to seventies but low in those in their fifties or younger. Although there is no unified definition regarding the age of early‐onset pancreatic cancer, previously published reports suggest that, compared to later‐onset pancreatic cancer patients, early‐onset pancreatic cancer patients tend to be detected at advanced stages and thus have poor prognoses, but they do not show...