New treatment combination safe for pancreatic cancer patients
June 2, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Treating pancreatic cancer with a combination of chemotherapy, biotherapy and radiotherapy prior to surgery is safe and may be beneficial for patients, according to a University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) study presented at the 44th annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago.
CURE POSSIBLE FOR PANCREATIC CANCER
March 24, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
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Mesothelin engineered on virus-like particles provides treatment clues for pancreatic cancer
February 15, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
New understanding of a protein that spurs the growth of pancreatic cancer could lead to a new vaccine against the deadly disease, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in a report appearing in the current edition of the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.
Chemotherapy with gemcitabine delays progression of operable pancreatic cancer
September 27, 2007 by admin · Leave a Comment
Barcelona, Spain: Giving pancreatic cancer patients the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine after surgery delays progression of the disease by about six months, according to new research by Japanese scientists.
UGA researchers set sights on early detection of pancreatic cancer
August 21, 2007 by admin · Leave a Comment
Funded by a $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, a team of UGA Cancer Center researchers is studying the fluid secreted by the pancreas to determine whether subtle changes in proteins and the sugars that adorn the proteins, known as glycans, can herald the presence of cancerous or precancerous cells. The UGA effort is part of a $15.5 million, five-year NIH initiative to discover, develop and clinically validate new early diagnostic tests for cancer by studying glycans. Read more
Promising way to detect pancreatic cancer explored
August 1, 2007 by admin · Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers reported on Wednesday they could detect even early stage pancreatic cancer by shining light on a neighboring organ.
The findings may lead to the first method to detect this particularly deadly form of cancer early enough to treat it, said study researcher Vadim Backman of Northwestern University. Pancreatic cancer is the fourth-leading cause of U.S. cancer deaths.
Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer by Stage
March 26, 2007 by admin · Leave a Comment
It is hard to stage pancreatic cancer accurately by imaging tests. Doctors must do their best to decide before surgery whether there is a good chance the cancer can be completely removed. Surgeons usually consider a pancreatic cancer resectable (completely removable by surgery) if it is staged as T1, T2, or T3. That means it doesn’t extend far beyond the pancreas, especially into nearby large blood vessels (T4). There is no accurate way to assess the lymph node spread of the tumor before or at the time of surgery.
