Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most challenging tumors to treat, partly because it is often discovered at advanced stages when the disease has already spread, or metastasized. About half of ...

Scientists at UC San Francisco have discovered how pancreatic cancer cells thrive in the lungs or liver, environments that are as distinct to cells as the ocean and desert are to animals. The spread ...

Until now, the following has been true for metastatic pancreatic cancer: Once the tumor has spread, local treatment such as surgery is usually no longer an option. In recent years, however, studies ...

Researchers at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that depleting a clotting protein made by the liver could slow down pancreatic cancer. The research, ...

A UCLA-developed nanoparticle is aiming to reprogram the liver in humans to attack pancreatic cancer with an mRNA vaccine (curved, hatched red lines) and an immune-activating fragment of genetic ...

Researchers have discovered how pancreatic cancer reprograms its surroundings to spread quickly and stealthily. By using a protein called periostin, the tumor remodels nearby tissue and invades nerves ...