Is pancreatitis prone to cancer?

Pancreatitis can be divided into acute pancreatitis and chronic pancreatitis. Acute pancreatitis is usually less likely to become cancerous, but if acute pancreatitis recurs, it may become chronic pancreatitis. Other factors, such as alcohol abuse, can lead to chronic pancreatitis, which has a certain chance of becoming cancerous. Chronic pancreatitis is a prolonged disease, the disease is worsening, the degree of pancreatic fibrosis is deepening, what medical science is doing is only to slow down the process of chronic pancreatic, chronic pancreatitis with the development of the disease may become pancreatic cancer. There are reports that the chance of chronic pancreatitis becoming pancreatic cancer after 9 years is about 1.4%, although it is only a general probability, the exact probability is not clear, but chronic pancreatitis has a certain chance of becoming cancerous, that is, a high risk factor for pancreatic cancer.