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Recently, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Boston is doing a small clinical trial involving volunteers with advanced pancreatic cancer. The study observed the ability of a commonly used anti-malarial drug, hydroxychloroquine, to slow down the growth of the aggressive malignancy. The results of the study will be published in the April issue of Genes & Development [...]
Base on a study published in the journal Science, that if the tissue around pancreatic cancer cells is targeted and not to the tumor cells themselves, the size of pancreatic cancer can be reduced significantly. Dr. Robert H. Vonderheide, University of Pennsylvania Abramson Cancer Center, part of the study showed that long thought that cancer [...]
According to a new article in the journal Science, Pfizer’s drug that reduces the pancreatic cancer, by deceiving the immune system has been promising in early studies. Experimental Medicine, until now only known in-, CP 870 893, accepted on 21 patients with incurable pancreatic cancer in combination with standard chemotherapy. In four cases, the drug [...]
Pancreatic cancer treatment depends on the tumor stage. There are many treatments ready to patients with pancreatic cancer, including surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy. The expert will use some of considerations to decide a treatment type: Can the cancer be removed by surgery? Patient’s general health Is the cancer has just been diagnosed or recurred? [...]
Base on the American Cancer Society (ACS) report, after diagnosis, only 1 percent of all patients who diagnosed with stage 4 will survive the full 5 years. The prognosis for stage 4 pancreatic cancer is unclear and hard to be done. It is identified as stage 4 if the cancer has metastasized to other organs [...]
The prognosis for pancreatic cancer is an expert opinion as to the likely outcome and course of the cancer. It also means the chance that some one with pancreatic cancer will have a recurrence or recover. Many keys can affect someone’s pancreatic cancer prognosis, such as, the stage of the cancer stage, the location and [...]
