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• Matchmakers: How Basket Trials Match Patients With Drugs Based on Their Tumors

  Drew Huggins was running out of options. After his diagnosis of metastatic pancreatic cancer two years ago, at age 47, he hadn’t had any luck with the treatments he’d tried […]
  Jul 14,2021

• Annual Report to the Nation: Rapid Decrease in Lung Cancer and Melanoma Deaths Lead Overall Continued Decline in Cancer Death Rate

  Overall cancer death rates continue to decline in men and women for all racial and ethnic groups in the United States, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on […]
  Jul 08,2021

• Immune cells assemble – boosting the effects of chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer

  A new study from Queen Mary University of London has demonstrated that immune cells can be stimulated to assemble into special structures within pancreatic cancer such that, at least in […]
  Jul 09,2021

• Personalized Medicine: Transforming Treatment Inside the Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Research Lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

  By Kerri Kaplan  Score! As hockey teams from the United States and Canada faced off recently to compete for the famed Stanley Cup, the leading cancer organizations in the US […]
  Jul 07,2021

• MasSpec Pen shows promise in pancreatic cancer surgery

  A diagnostic tool called the MasSpec Pen has been tested for the first time in pancreatic cancer patients during surgery. The device is shown to accurately identify tissues and surgical […]
  Jul 06,2021

• RWJBarnabas Health Pioneers Innovative Pancreatic Cyst Surveillance Program

  The incidental identification of pancreatic cysts has become more common with the increasing use of imaging modalities in clinical practice. Currently, an estimated 15% of Americans are believed to harbor […]
  Jul 05,2021

• A Leading Surgeon Helps Patients with Pancreatic Cancer Overcome Steep Odds

  An internationally renowned pancreatic surgeon, surgical oncologist, and cancer researcher, Christopher Wolfgang, MD, PhD, joined NYU Langone Health last January. He is chief of the new Division of Hepatobiliary and […]
  Oct 01,2021

• Blood test to spot pancreatic cancer: Pioneering check-up that can give early diagnosis of the disease could be available within months

  A test that spots pancreatic cancer from a single drop of blood could improve survival rates. The first blood test for early diagnosis of the hard-to-spot disease, it could be […]
  Jul 05,2021