What makes pancreatic cancer so aggressive? New study sheds lightNew research from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center helps explain why pancreatic cancer is so lethal, with fewer than a third of patients surviving even early stage disease.
The researchers found a gene known to be involved in nearly 90 percent of pancreatic cancers promotes cancer growth and spread. The gene, ATDC, plays a key role in how a tumor progresses from a preinvasive state to an invasive cancer to metastatic cancer. Continue reading What makes pancreatic cancer so aggressive? New study sheds light.
Articles from the U-M Cancer Center's blog, mCancerTalk
From the U-M Health System
from the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness - a collection of press releases and links to other web sites pertaining to pancreatic cancer, diagnosis and treatment topics.
from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)
NCCN Guidelines for Patients™ - Pancreatic Cancer
from the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
Cooking. Comfort. Care. Nourishment for the Pancreatic Cancer Fight