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The general five-year survival rate for people with pancreatic cancer is 10%. Survival rates and individual outcomes are based on many factors, including the specific stage of disease when it […]
Jul 02,2021
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Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have identified a protein that could be used to aid in the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Findings from the new study suggest that […]
Jun 29,2021
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A simple blood test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer before any clinical signs or symptoms of the disease is accurate enough to be rolled out as […]
Jun 28,2021
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A new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers has given scientists their first look at the genomic landscape of tumors that have grown resistant to drugs targeting the abnormal KRASG12C […]
Jun 24,2021
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Cancer cells can become resistant to treatments through adaptation, making them notoriously tricky to defeat and highly lethal. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Cancer Center Director David Tuveson and his […]
Jun 22,2021
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By Kerri Kaplan On the heels of Juneteenth being named a federal holiday, Avery Posey, PhD, the inaugural recipient of the Lustgarten Foundation Career Development Award honoring Congressman John R. Lewis gave an excellent talk on the importance of health equity in pancreatic cancer research […]
Jun 21,2021
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Scientists have identified a new class of targeted cancer drugs that offer the potential to treat patients whose tumors have faulty copies of the BRCA cancer genes. The drugs, known […]
Jun 17,2021
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There are cancers, and there are worse cancers. Then there is pancreatic cancer. This year 60,000 people will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, according to the American Cancer Society, and […]
Jun 12,2021