'New research hope' from pancreatic-cancer tissue bank

[Northerner]

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 from six hospitals in England and Wales.

The charity that funded it hopes there will eventually be better treatments and earlier diagnosis.

There are 8,875 cases of pancreatic cancer a year in the UK, with almost the same number of people dying from it annually.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35263463

 

[grovesy]

Saw this on the news.

 

[pottersusan]

I wonder if they'll have a slice of mine. There's plenty of it! In fact some of mine is in a bank in America.

this can only be good news.

I will hit 5 years survival in July this year and intend to change the 10 year survival statistics too 🙂