Molecule linked to aggressive pancreatic cancer offers potential clinical advances
Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered an enzyme they say is tightly linked to how aggressive pancreatic cancer will be in a patient.
May 21, 2014
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Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered an enzyme they say is tightly linked to how aggressive pancreatic cancer will be in a patient.
May 21, 2014
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A new study of patients who underwent curative surgical removal of a pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma showed that two of the nine preoperative factors analyzed were strongly predictive of poor prognosis regardless of the ...
Aug 10, 2017
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While the overall five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is slowly improving, it remains discouragingly low—just 13%, according to the American Cancer Society. And the odds are even worse if the cancer is discovered ...
Jun 24, 2024
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The xCT protein, which plays an important role as a transport molecule in cells, could play a part in cancer treatment in the future, researchers at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) have discovered. Their work is the result ...
Mar 26, 2024
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Splenic venous hypertension (SVH), also known as left-sided portal hypertension, is a rare condition characterized by upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding in the absence of liver disease. This condition arises due to increased ...
Jul 16, 2024
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Pancreatic cancer tumors addicted to mutant Kras signaling for their growth and progression have a ready-made substitute to tap if they're ever forced to go cold-turkey on the mutant oncogene, scientists at The University ...
Jun 19, 2014
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Fibrous tissue long suspected of making pancreatic cancer worse actually supports an immune attack that slows tumor progression but cannot overcome it, scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report ...
May 22, 2014
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