one of my best friends brother died of pancreatic cancer in 1987,he was 25 and his wife was 6 months pregnant with their child,his youngest sister who was 2 years older died in 1992 of it and his oldest sister died of it in 1994,my buddy is the last of the 4 kids in the family.he's been living in germany for the last 22 yrs and has been tested for a specific gene that supposedly causes it and he does not have this gene.so hopefully for his wife and 3 kids he doesn't.i've been a pall bearer for all three and i don't want his mother to have to ask me to do it again.