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A Johns Hopkins University scientist has created a compendium of 50,000 possible pancreatic cancer biomarkers and says he's asked his colleagues to study it.
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Seo et al. from Kyoto University (Japan) reported in the November-December issue of the Journal of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery (2008;15:634-639) on a study investigating the potential contributions of 18F-FDG PET in early pancreatic cancer.
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The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Asking For Support Of The Pancreatic Cancer Research And Education Act And Increase National Cancer Institute Funding
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The American College of Gastroenterology and its more than 10,000 physician members congratulate Senator Edward Kennedy and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson today for the introduction of
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Researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a gene that is overexpressed in 90 percent of pancreatic cancers, the most deadly type of cancer.
Detection of pancreatic cancer by blood-based test may improve outcomes. We sought to establish the feasibility of a blood-based detection of pancreatic cancer through multiplexed array-mediated analysis of DNA methylation, scientists in the United States report.
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A U.S. scientist says he's created a technique that can detect the early development of pancreatic cancer, which now has a 5 percent five-year survival rate. The optical technology developed by Northwestern University Professor Vadim Backman uses an analysis of adjacent tissue in the duodenum to detect the cancer.
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A study of nearly 1.3 million British women offers yet more evidence that moderate alcohol consumption increases the risk of a handful of cancers. British researchers surveyed middle- aged women at breast cancer screening clinics about their drinking habits, and tracked their health for seven years.
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Postmenopausal women who take multivitamins appear to have the same risk of most common cancers, cardiovascular disease or dying of any cause as women who do not take multivitamin supplements, according to a report in the February 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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U.S. medical scientists say they have developed a technology that is capable of detecting never- before-seen signs of early-stage pancreatic cancer. A team of researchers led by Northwestern University biomedical engineering Professor Vadim Backman said although the new technique has not yet proven effective in double- blind clinical trials, it might one day help diagnose cancers of the pancreas and, potentially, other organs at their earliest and most treatable stages.
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