Li J, et al. - Among patients (n=6341) over 40 years old with surgically resected pancreatic carcinoma (PC), researchers investigated determinants of overall survival (OS). They sought to construct a nomogram for OS prediction. The participants were selected from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program. The identified independent overall survival predictors were age, location of carcinoma in pancreas, tumor grade, Tumor-Node-Metastasis stage, size of carcinoma together with lymph node ratio. Using these six factors, they constructed a nomogram with concordance index being 0.680 (95%confidence interval: 0.667–0.693). In this study, the efficacy of the developed nomogram as a survival-predicting model as well as its ability to aid in accurate decision-making for patients over 40 years old with surgically resected PC was shown.