A new blood test could help doctors detect pancreatic cancer earlier, potentially improving survival rates for one of the deadliest cancers.

A new blood test has been found to detect early stage pancreatic cancer with 85% accuracy when used alongside a carbohydrate antigen 19-9 test, according to a study published Feb. 12 in Science ...

He noted that other assays studied in pancreatic cancer have only examined a handful of samples. "When they publish a second ...

The American Cancer Society estimates that 67,400 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year and nearly ...

The problem with pancreatic cancer is that we often catch it too late,” he stated. The PAC-MANN test aims to enable ...

CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, P. R. China ...

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest of all cancers. Only 12% of men diagnosed with pancreatic cancer are alive five years after diagnosis; for women it is 14%. In pancreatic cancer, symptoms ...

The lesion in the pancreatic tail was found to be benign, whereas the cytology of head lesion was reported as suspicious on first FNA and confirmed as adenocarcinoma on second FNA. Minor ...

Some centers will biopsy these lesions only if they are unresectable, in which case positive cytology will facilitate ... following EUS-FNA of solid pancreatic masses was reported to be 0.29% ...