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Pancreatic CancerPancreatic cancer is a disease in which malignant cells grow in the tissues of the pancreas. The pancreas is an organ located horizontally behind the lower part of your stomach and in front of the spine that produces digestive juices and hormones to digest and absorb food nutrients.A diagram of pancreas structureFigure 1. The pancreas structurePancreatic cancer occurs when pancreas cells develop abnormal DNA mutations in the pancreas that make them divide and grow a tumor.& …