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Let’s Win Inducted into the PR News Platinum Hall of Fame
Let’s Win has been inducted into the PR News Platinum Hall of Fame. Other inductees include the ALS Association’s ice bucket challenge.
New Crowdsourcing Platform Connects Pancreatic Cancer Patients to the Latest Studies
Dr. Allyson Ocean, a founder of Let’s Win, has a short video that explains how the website uses crowdsourcing of information for pancreatic cancer patients.
Health Professional Radio: The Let’s Win Story
Neal Howard of Health Professional Radio interviews Anne Glauber about her pancreatic cancer diagnosis and how that led to founding Let’s Win.
Testing a Drug that Works Only in the Tumor Microenvironment
Scientists are trying a new type of drug combination that gets activated only in the unique conditions of the tumor microenvironment.
Treatment Options
Treatment Options After you are diagnosed, your oncologist will discuss treatments. Learn more about the different types of chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation used to treat pancreatic cancer. Chemotherapy Most pancreatic cancer patients receive some type of chemotherapy, no matter what the stage of disease, to stop or slow the cancer from growing. Chemotherapy can cause […]
Let’s Win Pancreatic Cancer Introduces New Features to Help Patients
In a new press release, Let’s Win introduces new features to help patients, including a Trial Finder and a Doctor Finder.
Amazing Things—Dr. Allyson Ocean
Dr. Allyson Ocean is known for her warmth, and in a promotional video for NewYork-Presbyterian, former patient Corrine Cole explains why.
LET’S WIN! PANCREATIC CANCER Turns 5!
Let’s Win has reached its 5th anniversary. Read about our development and what we have accomplished in 5 short years.
Family History
Does it Run in My Family? The connection between your family’s medical history and pancreatic cancer As you may already know, cancer can run in families. In fact, people carrying certain genetic mutations have an increased risk of getting cancers including breast, colon, prostate, ovarian, and pancreatic cancer. All told, researchers estimate that known genetic […]
Diabetes
If You Have Diabetes, Are You at Risk for Pancreatic Cancer? If you are living with diabetes or prediabetes, you may have heard that there is a link between diabetes and pancreatic cancer. Please be reassured that most people with diabetes do not develop pancreatic cancer. However, it is known that almost one in four […]
Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors (PNETs)
Learn the Basics Steve Jobs and Aretha Franklin have more in common than being famous. Both also had the same rare form of pancreatic cancer, called pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs). More recently, television host Maria Menounos received treatment for the same condition. To learn more about living with PNETs, read our stories of survivors who […]
Oncologists Are Struggling to Treat Cancer Patients Amid the Pandemic
Dr. Allyson Ocean explains the changes to her practice and risks she and her patients face as they battle cancer amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Platinum Remembrance: The Power of Raising Your Voice
Gil Bashe and John Bianchi share a remembrance of Anne Glauber’s work and the power of advocacy on the eve of the Platinum PR Awards.
Let’s Win! Pancreatic Cancer Updates Clinical Trials Section
Let’s Win announces updates to its clinical trials section on its website. These include a new clinical trial finder, animations,and educational pages.
Let’s Win Pancreatic Cancer: Leading the Way Forward for Patients
The Biden Cancer Initiative has launched Pulse on Progress, an online magazine on Medium, and Let’s Win is featured in the first edition. The article focuses on how Let’s Win is changing the narrative around pancreatic cancer.