Tag: pancreatic cancer

  • Health

    Hope for breast cancer patients, but with a cruel caveat

    A new target for an old antibiotic is rooted in a decades-long effort to unlock the secrets of a lethal childhood disease.

    10 minutes
    Alan D'Andrea.
  • Science & Tech

    Exposing how pancreatic cancer does its dirty work

    New research has found that pancreatic cancer actively destroys nearby blood vessels and replaces them with cancerous cells, blocking chemotherapy from reaching tumors. This insight could lead to new treatments that act by preventing cancer’s colonization of blood vessels.

    6 minutes
    Pancreatic cancer cell
  • Health

    Novel protocol improves pancreatic cancer outcomes

    Adding the blood-pressure drug losartan to the intensive chemo and radiation protocol for treating locally advanced pancreatic cancer allowed complete removal of the tumor in 61 percent of trial participants and significantly improved survival rates.

    4 minutes
    Surgeons performing an operation
  • Health

    Vaccine holds promise against ovarian cancer

    A novel approach to cancer immunotherapy — strategies designed to induce the immune system to attack cancer cells — may provide a new and cost-effective weapon against some of the most deadly tumors, including ovarian cancer and mesothelioma.

    3 minutes