A new light-scattering tool is able to detect structural changes happening in pre-cancerous or cancerous pancreatic lesions, through a highly accurate, minimally-invasive method. Typically, pancreatic cancer survival rates are very low due to a lack of diagnostic tools that can catch…
Reason for Pancreatic Cancer’s Resistance to Chemotherapy Found
A University of Liverpool research team has published a study that identifies the mechanism in the human body that causes resistance of pancreatic cancer cells to chemotherapy, focusing on Fibroblasts in pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is one of the leading causes…
Tiny Gold Nanoparticles Could Help Develop New Pancreatic Cancer Therapy
A diagnosis of pancreatic cancer is often a death sentence because chemotherapy and radiation have little impact on the disease. In the U.S. this year, some 53,000 new cases will be diagnosed, and 42,000 patients will die of the disease, according…
Insulin Pump Outperformed by ‘Bionic Pancreas’
From right, researcher Dr. Steven Russell of Massachusetts General Hospital stands with Frank Spesia and Colby Clarizia, two participants in a type 1 diabetes trial testing an electronic device called a bionic pancreas – the cellphone-sized device shown – which replaces…