According to a publication from EurekAlert, researchers from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine (OUCM) recently published a study in the journal Gastroenterology suggesting how cachexia is triggered in…
According to a publication from the Arizona BioIndustry Association, Dr. Rachna Shroff and a team of researchers from the Arizona Cancer Center are studying the use of nab-paclitaxel (a pancreatic…
According to a story from Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, there are a wide variety of different treatment approaches for cancer; however, the effectiveness of these treatments so far has been…
Answer: This iconic game show host - who was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer earlier this year - has miraculously overcome the odds, announcing he is in "near remission."…
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Health News Digest recently published an article that describes a simple blood test called DELFI, meaning DNA evaluation of fragments for early interception. Its simplicity belies the fact that it can detect…
According to a story from BioPortfolio, AstraZeneca and Merck have recently announced the results from a phase 3 clinical trial testing olaparib (marketed as LYNPARZA®) as a treatment for BRCA…
According to a story from finanznachrichten.de, the biotherapeutics company 4D pharma has recently announced a research partnership with the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas. The goal of…
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CRISPR-Cas9, the genome editing tool, has caused quite a stir in the scientific community. According to a recent article in Science Daily, with results published in Nature Communications, CRISPR has…
According to a story from Financial Buzz, the drug developer Rafael Pharmaceuticals, Inc., recently announced that a Phase II clinical trial that will test the company's experimental drug CPI-613 in…
According to a story from globenewswire.com, the biopharmaceutical company Innovation Pharmaceuticals recently released a report in which recent studies and pre-clinical research has suggested that the company's experimental drug Kevetrin…
According to a story from the Andover Advertiser, mother June Beere has kicked off a campaign to open a cancer support center after her 42 year old daughter Gemma Kent…
For years FibroGen has been investigating a drug called pamrevlumab. They believe it could be an effective treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), pancreatic cancer, and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).…
According to an article at ScienceDaily, a combination of immunotherapy and chemotherapy therapies caused pancreatic cancer tumors to shrink in the majority of patients in a phase 1b clinical trial.…
According to a publication from Live Science, researchers from around the world are working on a way to identify cancer in the body more efficiently and reliably. One way scientists…
According to a story from EurekAlert!, a team of scientists affiliated with the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have been conducting research that has revealed a new potential therapeutic approach…
"...just like 50,000 other people in the United States each year, this week I was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer." Alex Trebek - who has has hosted the…
According to a story from EurekAlert!, a new type of cancer drug that is being described as a "Trojan horse" that infiltrates cancer tumors is showing potential in several types…
According to a story from PR Newswire, The Lustgarten Foundation, which is the largest private organization that funds research on pancreatic cancer, has recently announced that opening of its fourth…
This is the story of Tom Dinwiddie, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer on April 2, 2012. This year, now age 69, he is officially six years cancer free. The Diagnosis…
Thanks to a chance encounter in a bike shed, two research groups at the Francis Crick Institute have discovered two distinct ways that pancreatic cancer tumors form and grow. The first research…
According to a story from prweb.com, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Allegheny Health Network (AHC) Cancer Institute have entered a partnership that plans to investigate…
According to a story from the Irish Mirror, 32-year-old Ben McGuire recently sued the HSE after claiming that the Cork University Hospital was unable to detect a pancreatic cancer tumor…
According to a story from Physician's Weekly, the pharmaceutical company AbbVie, Inc. recently announced that its cancer drug Imbruvica failed to measure up in a recent clinical trial in which…
According to a story from PR Newswire, pancreatic cancer rates in the US are increasing by almost two percent each year. This puts the disease in position to become the…
According to a story from Medical Xpress, a team of researchers affiliated with the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center found some encouraging results when they tested an immune system enhancing…
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