A 69 year old female patient with cancer in the head (widest part) of the pancreas spreading to a major abdominal artery (left image). After combined chemotherapy and radiation treatment, the tumor ...

The Tumor Marker Gene Model (TMGM) is a diagnostic tool to determine if patients with pancreatic cancer are suited for post-treatment surgery. It determines how a patient’s DNA affects their tumor ...

The incidence of pancreatic adenocarcinoma increases across all age groups, whereas colorectal adenocarcinoma increases only among younger age groups.

For Vanessa Contreras, a teacher aide at Veterans Memorial Elementary School, life has been an uphill battle since her pancreatic cancer diagnosis during pregnancy two years ago. Yet through her ...

Type 2 diabetes can increase your risk of pancreatic cancer, but the amount of time since your diagnosis can affect your risk ...

Ravindra Uppaluri, MD, PhD, lead investigator of the phase 3 KEYNOTE-689 trial (NCT03765918), highlights the need for a multidisciplinary approach to translate the study's findings into real-world ...

Pancreatic cysts are fluid-filled sacs that can form in the pancreas. Some remain benign, while others have the potential to develop into pancreatic cancer. A recent study, which followed 257 patients ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found a pattern of so-called epigenetic "marks" in a transition state between ...

Arvind Trindade, MD, discusses a large database study looking at rising rates of pancreatic and colon cancer in young adults.

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found a pattern of so-called epigenetic "marks" in a transition state between normal and pancreatic cancer cells in mice, and that the normal cells may ...

Researchers have developed a personalized blood test that may offer a faster, less invasive way to track high-grade glioma progression.