Cancer Survivors Who Inspire Us
June 4 is National Cancer Survivors Day. To honor this occasion, we’re sharing the stories of six survivors who inspire us. Some are public figures who are famous the world over. Others are people...
Tag: pancreatic cancer
Understanding the accomplice cells that help drive pancreatic cancer
Mara Sherman’s award-winning research is uncovering the role of non-cancer cells that support tumor growth in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. The pancreatic cancer survival rate, averaging...
New funding for a dire need: Pancreas cancer early detection
With a $250,000 award from the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, researchers will seek to validate biomarkers able to detect pancreas cancer months or years before patients experience overt symptoms...
New insight into the anti-cancer effect of aspirin
For reasons that remain uncertain, people who take aspirin on a regular basis have a reduced risk of colorectal cancer and certain other malignancies. Now researchers have identified a...
Marquam Hill Lecture: Confronting the unexpected rise of pancreas cancer
Unlike the other major causes of cancer mortality, pancreatic cancer is increasing in both incidence and number of deaths each year. Despite improvements in early detection and therapy that have...
Wanted: Patients’ perspectives on cancer research
Five years ago, Betty Booher’s husband was diagnosed with primary cancers in the colon and the pancreas and died at age 57. In the aftermath, she says, “It was important to me to find a way to...
Finding lessons in a failed pancreatic cancer clinical trial
Nearly a third of people diagnosed with pancreatic adenocarcinoma have locally advanced tumors that cannot be removed by surgery. A longstanding and critical question for these patients is...
Advancing a potential blood test for pancreatic cancer
Immunovia’s "IMMray" technology uses an antibody microarray to detect the protein signature of pancreatic cancer in blood samples. The Swedish biotech firm Immunovia reached another milestone...
Immune signature in blood could enable earlier detection of pancreatic cancer
Less than one in ten cases of pancreatic cancer in the U.S. are diagnosed at the local stage. And the relative survival rate — around 6 percent at five years — is by far the worst among major...