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Your Survival Depends on Taking Control of What You Can
Sharon Orleans Lawrence outlines her search for stage IV pancreatic cancer treatment. She chooses low-dose chemotherapy, which made her life comfortable.
Personalizing Pancreatic Cancer Treatment
Dr. Mark Ricigliano takes a closer look at the genetics of circulating tumor cells, to personalize pancreatic cancer treatment for the best results.
Pancreatic Cancer Tissue Helps Unlock the Disease’s Secrets
Dr. Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue at Memorial Sloan Kettering is using techniques from evolutionary biology to learn how pancreatic cancer grows.
Testing Vitamin C as a Cancer Killer
Lewis Cantley’s team is starting clinical trials of vitamin C to gain more information about its role in stopping cancer.
Immunology Researchers Solve a Mystery of Metastasis
Physician and researcher Douglas Fearon and his lab have a possible explanation for how cancer cells metastasize, and the role surgery may play in this process.
Exercise Helps Boost Immune System and Immunotherapy Treatment
Dr. Emma Kurz is part of a research team that has found that exercise can help make immunotherapy more effective for pancreatic cancer.
Inhibiting Cell Division With Alternating Electric Fields
Dr. Andrew Coveler explains how electric fields are being used to disrupt pancreatic cancer cell division, to make tumors more removable.
PATHFINDER Blood Test Trial Focused on Early Detection
Dr. Minetta Liu is part of the team conducting a clinical trial to find biomarkers that will become an easy blood test for pancreatic cancer.
Multi-Site Precision Promise Study Opens
Dr. Vincent Picozzi explains how Precision Promise clinical trial will use a personalized approach for pancreatic cancer patients.
New Trial to Find Biomarkers to Guide Treatment
Drs. Jennifer Knox and Elizabeth Jaffee lead the PASS-01 trial using biomarkers and other measures to choose individualized treatment.
A Look at MEK and Autophagy Inhibition
Dr. Conan Kinsey looks at the MEK pathway as way to make immunotherapy more effective for pancreatic cancer patients.
RNA Precision Trial for Pancreatic Cancer Opens At Columbia
Dr. Andrea Califano leads a precision oncology clinical trial of the OncoTreat platform, which looks at proteins to determine treatment.
New Prospective Clinical Study of Blood-Based Early Detection Test
Dr. Rosalie Sears is working with Biological Dynamics to test a new early detection blood assay and platform for pancreatic cancer screening.
Why Clinical Trials Should Be a Patient’s Starting Point
Why are clinical trials such an important part of pancreatic cancer treatment? We outline many reasons doctors and patients should look at trials.
Felix 2.0 Builds Upon Artificial Intelligence Earlier Detection Successes
Can artificial intelligence help find pancreatic cancer sooner? Dr. Elliot Fishman thinks so, and has been working to make it happen.