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New Drug Works With Other Drugs To Attack Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is the most common form of pancreatic cancer. Each year, it strikes over 50,000 Americans and kills almost all of them. There are few treatment options currently…
Health Matters: An Option for Pancreatic Cancer
“Survivals are better marginally than they have been in the past but we have a long, long way to go,” said Dr. Mark Bloomston, a surgical oncologist on the medical…
PCPs Can Help Prevent Pancreatic Cancer
However, by addressing the causes and risk factors of pancreatic cancer, such as smoking, obesity, alcohol intake and a diet high in fat and red meat, primary care physicians and…
Diabetes Drugmakers Must Face Claims Over Pancreatic Cancer Risk
The claims against Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp, the maker of Janumet and Januvia; Novo Nordisk Inc, the manufacturer of Victoza; and AstraZeneca’s Amylin Pharmaceuticals, which produces Byetta, are not…
Mediterranean Diet Adherence and Risk of Pancreatic Cancer: A Pooled Analysis of Two Dutch Cohorts
We examined the association between MD adherence and pancreatic cancer incidence by pooling data from the Netherlands Cohort Study (NLCS, 120,852 subjects) and the Dutch cohort of the European Prospective…
ASCO Urges Routine dMMR Testing for Second-Line Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
The updates to the guidelines, which were last reviewed in 2016, include a recommendation for the PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab (Keytruda) for patients who test positive for dMMR or…
