A combination of three proteins found at high levels in urine can accurately detect early-stage pancreatic cancer new research has found. The discovery could lead to a non-invasive inexpensive test to screen people at high risk of developing the disease. For a cancer with no early stage symptoms it is a huge challenge to diagnose pancreatic cancer sooner but if we can then we can make a big difference to survival rates said study co-author Nick Lemoine director of Barts Cancer Institute Queen Mary University of London. Although there is no universal cause of pancreatic cancer people at higher risk