The FDA and European Medicines Agency (EMA) have awarded orphan drug designation to CPI-008 (cRGD-ZW800-1), a novel ...

Surgery and chemotherapy together improved survival in GIST patients with liver metastases, increasing median cancer-specific ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Adults with obesity who underwent bariatric surgery had ...

Irene Blair was expected to have another six to eight months to live in June, after her pancreatic cancer rapidly advanced to ...

Patients with pancreatic cancer who received chemotherapy both before and after surgery experienced longer survival rates than would be expected from surgery followed by chemotherapy, according to a ...

The pancreas is an organ behind the stomach and near the spleen. It performs both exocrine and endocrine functions. The exocrine cells release digestive enzymes to assist with breaking down food. The ...

In a randomized trial of patients with left-sided resectable pancreatic cancer, minimally invasive pancreatectomy showed comparable overall survival and disease-free survival to open surgery, ...

Metabolic-bariatric surgery (MBS) appears to lower the risk for pancreatic cancer in people with obesity, with a potentially greater effect in those who also have type 2 diabetes (T2D), new research ...

More than 67,000 Americans are expected to be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year, but a new blood test is offering ...

Stage 2 pancreatic cancer includes stages 2A and 2B. Stage 2A is when the cancer tumor has grown to over 4 centimeters (cm). Stage 2B is when it has spread from the pancreas to up to three nearby ...

Pancreatic cysts are increasingly found incidentally due to better imaging technology. The primary goal is to distinguish pre-cancerous mucinous cysts (like IPMNs) from benign non-mucinous cysts.