Quick detection means speedier treatment and better chance of survival
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Quick detection means speedier treatment and better chance of survival
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Doctors will identify people most at risk and offer them tests to rule it out

Two-year programme will be rolled out to seven hospitals in bid to raise detection rates from 80 per cent to more than 90 per cent

Pancreatic cancer is the fifth most common cause of cancer deaths in the UK, according to the NHS

Health secretary Wes Streeting has backed the plans for the first-of-its-kind database

The test looks for certain proteins in the blood which show the immune system is responding to the first signs of cancer

NHS-backed programme will give men rapid access to new treatments for the best chance of a ‘longer, healthier life’