In France, pancreatic cancer remains relatively rare, but its prevalence is increasing. Over the year 2023, it increased by 2.1% among women and 1.6% among men, according to figures revealed by the National Cancer Institute (INCa) in its report published in September 2024. From Femme Actuelle, Dr Antoine Hollebecque, oncologist at the Gustave Roussy Institute, underlined in a previous interview that between “1990 and 2023, the The number of pancreatic cancers has increased fourfold. According to some estimates, this cancer will perhaps be the second leading cause of cancer deaths by 2030.”
But how can we explain this increase? French researchers looked at the role of pesticides and the risk of pancreatic adenocarcinoma, the most common form of pancreatic cancer. It should be noted that this work, published in November 2024 in the European Journal of Epidemiology, does not make it possible to establish a causal relationship.
To arrive at these results, the researchers mapped the appearance of diseases according to location in the territory. To do this, they based themselves on French medico-administrative data from 134,102 patients with pancreatic cancer. Data was collected between 2011-2021. The researchers analyzed exposure levels to different pesticides. In addition, “the analyzes were adjusted for tobacco-induced diseases, deprivation, accessibility to medicine (…)
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