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Mainly consumed in Sweden and Norway, snus (snuff) is a tobacco product designed for insertion between the gum and upper lip and for years there has been argument whether its net effect on one’s health is positive or negative.
People using Swedish moist snuff (snus) doubles their risk of developing pancreatic cancer, according to a new […]
Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in both men and women. This type of cancer is so fatal because it is difficult to diagnose early and there are only few treatment advances.
Researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center have found new pancreatic cancer markers in tiny molecules called microRNA […]
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have developed a dendritic cell-based therapeutic vaccine that can successfully halt the progression of pancreatic cancer in some patients three years after vaccination.
The vaccine is made up of a synthetic version of MUC1 (a tumor-associated protein that is expressed by pancreatic tumor cells) combined with the […]
Cancer stem cells are the small number of cancer cells that are able to replicate to promote tumor growth.
The failure of current cancer treatments, as believed by cancer researchers, is due to the fact that they don’t target or kill such stem cells.
Researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center are the first to […]
Giving patients both radiation and chemotherapy after completely removing invasive pancreatic cancer may improve overall survival rates, according to researchers from Mayo Clinic Cancer Center.
Such finding has been reported by Michele Corsini, M.D., a radiation oncology resident in Rochester and the study’s lead author, at the recent 2007 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.
in patients who received concurrent […]
A new animal model for pancreatic cancer exhibiting a high degree of similarity to human tumors has been developed by researchers at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
Findings from the study on the genetically-engineered mice suggest that the said mice model can provide new channels in pursuing targeted chemotherapeutics and screening methods for one of the most […]
According to a study led by Halcyon Skinner, Ph.D., of Northwestern University with colleagues from Harvard University, revealed that consumption of Vitamin D tablets cuts the risk of pancreatic cancer by nearly half.
One of the first known studies to use a large-scale epidemiological survey to examine the relationship between Vitamin D and pancreatic cancer, the results […]
Luciano Pavarotti, the Italian singer, was recently diagnosed and had surgery for pancreatic cancer.
Each year, about 216,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer are reported mostly in developed countries according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France.
Earlier this week, scientists have reported the discovery of two cell movement regulating proteins, CapG and […]
According to surgeons at the Jefferson Medical College, age doesn’t necessarily have to be the deciding factor for cancer surgery. Major pancreatic cancer surgery can actually be successfully performed on patients in their 80s, 90s and even older; contrary to what many (in and out of the medical profession) believe.
Pancreatic cancer surgeon Charles J. Yeo […]
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Written by Gloria Gamat [email] for b5media.
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