pancreatic cancer

Erika Vincent and Frances Dewar have many things in common. Both busy, working mothers with full, active lives, neither had much cause to trouble their doctors. Then, earlier this year, they were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer within weeks of one another. For both, it was shattering news. ‘I...

The daughter of a man who died with pancreatic cancer after months of delays in his treatment has called for waiting times to be cut to help fight the disease. William Begley was diagnosed with the condition in March 2016 and died just three months later after it took eight weeks from the point...

Pancreatic cancer is currently very difficult to detect while it is still resectable. A new blood test developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden, Herlev Hospital, Knight Cancer Center and Immunovia AB, can detect pancreatic cancer in the very earliest stages of the disease. The...

People with pancreatic cancer and their families and carers are invited to attend an event in Sutton Coldfield to find out more about the disease and the support available to patients locally, as well as meet others affected. Close to 900 people will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this...

Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have solved a mystery about how pancreatic cancer spreads following surgery in patients whose tumor is successfully removed. After surgery, patients' typically experience a two-week period during which their immune system is depleted as a result...

They say the human spirit is indomitable… That when you put your mind to it and include all of your heart and soul, anything is possible. Such was the case with New York City businessman Jimmy Pantelidis, who only four months after his last chemotherapy treatment for pancreatic cancer, was...

One in three adults would ignore potential symptoms of pancreatic cancer, according to a charity. Stomach ache, indigestion, unexplained weight loss and faeces that float rather than sink in the lavatory can be warning signs of the potentially deadly disease, says Pancreatic Cancer UK. Early...

Speeding up access to surgery for pancreatic cancer patients diagnosed early enough increased success rates by a third, a pilot scheme has shown. The Birmingham team said it had saved the NHS £3,200 per patient and could help hundreds of patients UK-wide. The trial involved cutting average...

A golf-sized green sponge discovered more than a decade ago in deep, icy waters off the coast of Alaska is showing promise as a treatment for pancreatic and ovarian cancer. Scientists say a molecule from the sponge selectively killed malignant cells in both types of diseases in laboratory...

A new pancreatic cancer project has been launched to find ways to speed up scientific discovery to improve the survival rates of patients. Cancer Research UK have invested £10m in the PRECISION-Panc project, which aims to find quick ways of finding the right treatment for individual tumours...

A new combination of chemotherapy drugs should become the main therapy for pancreatic cancer, say UK researchers. The disease is so hard to treat that survival rates have barely changed for decades. But data, presented at the world's biggest cancer conference, showed long-term survival could...

Abu Dhabi: A 79-year-old Pakistani imam in Abu Dhabi has successfully had a cancerous mass in his pancreas removed through a laparoscopic procedure. The procedure was carried out at Tawaam Hospital in Al Ain, a public facility under the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (Seha) that specialises...

A drug which provides hope to pancreatic cancer patients will continue to be made available on the Welsh NHS. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) decided not to recommendAbraxane for use within the NHS in England or Wales in October 2015. But in light of a “clear...

Four key subtypes of pancreatic cancer have been identified as researchers hail breakthrough in treatment of deadly disease. Experts hope the discovery will enable the creation of new treatments for pancreatic cancer , which is the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths Western countries...

A diabetes drug that showed promise in previous studies as an anti-cancer treatment failed to show any benefit in a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center-led study that used pancreatic cancer tissue samples to test sensitivity to the drug. The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE...

Medical researchers hope a new bank storing tissue from patients will give them a clearer insight into pancreatic cancer. This complex illness has the worst 10-year survival rate of any cancer, with most patients being told they may have less than a year to live. The bank will collect samples...

Newswise — By collecting samples from the portal vein—which carries blood from the gastrointestinal tract, including from the pancreas, to the liver—physicians can learn far more about a patient’s pancreatic cancer than by relying on peripheral blood from a more easily accessed vein in the arm...

I've recently been told by my surgeon, that more than 10% of people who've had a total pancreatectomy die of hypoglycaemia. So, us pancreasless folk need to be very careful.

As many of you know, I'm diabetic due to having my pancreas removed. I had a rare type of pancreatic cancer - a neuroendocrine tumour. Survival rates for pancreatic cancer have not changed over the last 30 years. This is, I'm sure you'll agree, a disgrace. Pancreatic cancer doesn't usually...