Pancreatic Cancer Ecosystem and Vitamin D
The Lustgarten Foundation's board member, Anne Glauber shares a personal journey as it relates to her own treatment of #PancreaticCancer with synthetic vitamin D and the micro-environment of the actual disease.
12.9.15
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Stand Up To Cancer, Cancer Research UK, and The Lustgarten Foundation Fund Team with $12 million
The Stand Up To Cancer – Cancer Research UK –Lustgarten Foundation Dream Team of top cancer researchers from the United States and the United Kingdom was named here today to launch a fresh attack on pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest forms of cancer on both sides of the Atlantic.
11.6.15
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FDA Approves New Treatment for Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Onivyde (irinotecan liposome injection), in combination with fluorouracil and leucovorin, to treat patients with advanced (metastatic) pancreatic cancer who have been previously treated with gemcitabine-based chemotherapy.
10.22.15
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Sharing Pancreatic Cancer Treatment Information - A Lifeline
The Lustgarten Foundation's board member, Anne Glauber shares her own treatment as a lifeline for other patients with Pancreatic Cancer.
09.25.15
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Pancreatic Cancer Deserves Research Investment
In the battle against pancreatic cancer, every bit of medical progress is good news. This is one of the deadliest cancers of all.
08.16.15
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For the Most Lethal Cancer: Find the Best Science
The Lustgarten Foundations’ board member, Anne Glauber explains how living with pancreatic cancer has some blessings, creating a “life of love”, as well as meeting scientists and doctors committed to changing the course of this disease. “Although the past 40 years have given us very few (and no long-term) treatments for pancreatic cancer, there is now new progress from a number of exceptional scientists willing to focus on these challenges.”
07.31.15
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Naperville Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk
The 5th Annual Naperville Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk brought together a community of people joining the fight against the disease.In the past four years, this walk has raised over $166,000 for critically needed research. This year had the most walkers and donations to-date.
07.31.15
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Congress Must Pass 21st Century Cures Act Now
This is an incredibly exciting time in biomedical research[...]At a time of seemingly perennial gridlock in Washington, the U.S. Congress has emerged as a surprising catalyst for such change. A large bipartisan effort over the past year has identified ways to speed the availability of safe and more effective treatments for patients by taking full advantage of the latest science. That is what underpins the 21st Century Cures Act (HR 6) now making its way through Congress.
07.8.15
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Toward Blood-Based Cancer Detection
Dr. Bert Vogelstein, a Lustgarten Foundation Distinguished Scholar and the head of our Early Detection Initiative, is quoted in an article in The Scientist that highlights the future and hope of the “liquid biopsy”, or blood sample, as a means to detect cancer before clinical symptoms occur.
07.7.15
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Tiny Particles in Blood Useful for Early Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer
Dr. Raghu Kalluri, a Lustgarten Foundation-funded scientist at MD Anderson Cancer Center, has discovered that a protein called GPC1 is highly expressed on the surface of small, cancer-produced structures called “exosomes”. GPC1-expressing exosomes are released and detectable in the blood, which means they have the potential to become a clinical cancer biomarker.
06.24.15
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Study Identifies Multiple Genetic Changes Linked to Increased Pancreatic Cancer Risk
One of our own Research Investigators, Alison Klein at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, discovered four new genetic variations that may increase the risk for Pancreatic Cancer if it is present in a person's genome, or genetic blueprint.
06.23.15
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PEGPH20 Comibation Doubles PFS in HA-High Pancreatic Cancer
"Recent clinical work by one of our outstanding grantees, Dr. Sunil Hingorani, has shown that, "the addition of the enzyme PEGPH20 to standard nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine improved progression-free survival (PFS) by 4.9 months compared with the two agents alone in untreated patients with advanced pancreatic cancer with high expression levels of hyaluronan (HA), according to interim findings from a phase II study presented at the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting."
06.16.15
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Antibody Fragments Expand What PET Imaging Can 'See' In Mice
“Lustgarten-funded researchers Dr. Hidde Ploegh and Dr. Ralph Weissleder have designed a more sensitive and precise imaging technique to detect and monitor pancreatic tumors.
06.3.15
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Small Study Shows Genetic Biomarker May Predict Cancer Patients' Response to Immunotherapy Drug
Research findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine and funded in part by The Lustgarten Foundation show promise leveraging certain immunotherapy drugs for a small subset of pancreatic cancer patients where standard therapies have failed.
05.29.15
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Finding My Treatment For Pancreatic Cancer
The Lustgarten Foundation’s board member, Anne Glauber, explains the innovative treatment she is receiving for her stage IV pancreatic cancer.
05.15.15
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The Next Shock After a Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis: Where Are the Treatments?
The Lustgarten Foundation's board member, Ann Glauber, is telling her story about being diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer and her frustration with the lack of treatment options available.
05.11.15
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A Walk to Remember: Raising Awareness About Pancreatic Cancer
"Pancreatic cancer was something I knew little about until this "silent killer," as it is known, came into our lives with devastating speed and took someone we loved, so much, away, so quickly."
04.30.15
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Dr. Carl June offers pancreatic cancer patients revolutionary new immunotherapy
With a jointly funded $1.1 million grant provided by the Lustgarten Foundation and the Cancer Research Institute, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania will begin clinical testing of a new form of immunotheraopy, which they anticipate could dramatically improve patient health.
03.31.15
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2015 Ruth Leff Siegel Award
The pancreas Center is announcing a call for nominations for the third annual, 2015 Ruth Leff Siegel Award.
03.26.15
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$12 Million translational research grant announced
Cancer Research UK and The Lustgarten Foundation join with SU2C to fund new Pancreatic Cancer Dream Team.
03.04.15
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New Clinical Trial
New immunotherapy clinical trial begins with support from SU2C and The Lustgarten Foundation Pancreatic Cancer Dream Team.
02.10.15
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Lustgarten foundation Investigators
Multi million dollar grants allow scientists to dedicate more focus to identifying new breakthroughs in pancreatic cancer research and accelerating a path to a cure.
02.06.15
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