A project conducted by the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) and the UAB to investigate whether certain pesticides and other environmental toxins contribute to pancreatic cancer has b...
The combination of TTFields and chemotherapy did demonstrate a delay in tumour growth compared to the animals treated only with chemotherapy (47% average relative reduction of tumour growth)
Pancreatic cancer is rare, but it is one of the most deadly cancers with the highe st mortality rates, and one of the lowest 5 -‐ year survival rates approaching 15 ‐ 20%
Mutations of the KRAS gene occur in over 90% of pancreatic carcinomas. The gene helps the cell to interpret what is happening outside and indicates what actions must be done next, for instance to repr...
A large DNA analysis of people with and without pancreatic cancer has identified several new genetic markers that signal increased risk of developing the highly lethal disease, report scientists from ...