Pancreatic Cancer

Break Through Cancer will award $50 million in grants designed to maximize interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers at five top cancer centers.

An artificial intelligence model showed potential for pancreatic cancer prediction, using electronic medical records to identify individuals with a 25-fold greater risk for developing the disease within 3 to 36 months, study results showed.

A recent study found that fecal microbiota-based screening may help detect early-stage pancreatic cancer.

Pancreatic cancer often is called the silent killer.

Allan Tsung, MD, has been appointed chair of the department of surgery at University of Virginia School of Medicine.

Fecal microbiota-based screening may help with early detection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, according to a study published in Gut.

Recent Cancer Treatment Centers of America team addition, Katherine Poruk, MD, shared her interest in improving a gastrointestinal and pancreatic cancer care, as well as advice for other women like her who are early in their career.

Sotorasib demonstrated clinically meaningful anticancer activity in patients with heavily pretreated KRAS G12C-mutated advanced pancreatic cancer, according to study results presented during the ASCO Plenary Series.

A study of eryaspase added to chemotherapy did not meet its primary endpoint of improved OS among patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, according to a presentation at ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

The FDA granted orphan drug designation to MT-601, an investigational T-cell immunotherapy, for treatment of advanced or metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma.