Pancreatic Tumours

In this article, we discuss the link between pancreatic health and diabetes. We also list some common early signs of poor pancreatic health.

MIT researchers have developed a small, implantable device that delivers chemotherapy drugs directly to pancreatic tumours, and can potentially help shrink the tumours to a size where a surgeon can remove them.

An implantable device can deliver a particularly toxic cocktail of drugs directly to the highly lethal pancreatic tumours to stunt their growth or in some cases, shrink them -- all while showing signs that the rest of the body would be spared of the toxic side effects, new research has found.

By collecting samples from the portal vein -- which carries blood from the gastrointestinal tract, including from the pancreas, to the liver -- physicians can learn far more about a patients pancreatic cancer than by relying on peripheral blood from a more easily accessed vein in the arm, says a study.

Pairing an experimental drug with an existing one could provide a more effective way to treat a form of pancreatic cancer than a single drug, new research has found.

When the reprogrammed cancer cells were introduced into mice, their ability to form tumours was greatly diminished.

Ginger can kill ovarian cancer cells while a compound in pepper hot can shrink pancreatic tumours.

In this article, we discuss the link between pancreatic health and diabetes. We also list some common early signs of poor pancreatic health.

MIT researchers have developed a small, implantable device that delivers chemotherapy drugs directly to pancreatic tumours, and can potentially help shrink the tumours to a size where a surgeon can remove them.

An implantable device can deliver a particularly toxic cocktail of drugs directly to the highly lethal pancreatic tumours to stunt their growth or in some cases, shrink them -- all while showing signs that the rest of the body would be spared of the toxic side effects, new research has found.

By collecting samples from the portal vein -- which carries blood from the gastrointestinal tract, including from the pancreas, to the liver -- physicians can learn far more about a patients pancreatic cancer than by relying on peripheral blood from a more easily accessed vein in the arm, says a study.

Pairing an experimental drug with an existing one could provide a more effective way to treat a form of pancreatic cancer than a single drug, new research has found.

When the reprogrammed cancer cells were introduced into mice, their ability to form tumours was greatly diminished.

Ginger can kill ovarian cancer cells while a compound in pepper hot can shrink pancreatic tumours.