Tag: Cancer: Pancreatic

Fecal metagenomics classifiers better than salivary-based classifiers for identifying pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Mortality risk reduced for patients exposed to ARBs after PC diagnosis and for those exposed to ACE inhibitors in first three years

Findings show promise following diagnosis of impaired fasting glucose

Findings show promise following diagnosis of impaired fasting glucose

Additional symptoms can be used to update QCancer, a risk prediction model that helps physicians identify patients at high risk for cancer

Incidence increased for men and women; relative increase greater for women versus men aged younger than 55 years

Amount of alcohol consumed in each occasion seems to be a less important risk factor

84.7 percent of patients in clinical trials were White and 54.8 percent were men; underrepresentation seen in trials of nearly all phases

Mortality higher for patients readmitted to outside hospital rather than index hospital after hepatopancreatobiliary or gastric cancer surgery

Survival benefit seen for surgery, even with R1/R2 resection margins compared with chemotherapy alone for stage II pancreatic cancer