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Bariatric Surgery Restores Pancreatic Function by Targeting Belly Fat
February 26, 2013 — Researchers have found that gastric bypass surgery reverses diabetes by uniquely restoring pancreatic function in moderately obese patients with uncontrolled type 2 ... > full story -
Scientists Create Method to Personalize Chemotherapy Drug Selection
February 14, 2013 — In laboratory studies, scientists have developed a way to personalize chemotherapy drug selection for cancer patients by using cell lines created from their own ... > full story -
Molecular Master Switch for Pancreatic Cancer Identified, Potential Predictor of Treatment Outcome
February 12, 2013 — A recently described master regulator protein may explain the development of aberrant cell growth in the pancreas spurred by inflammation. The team profiled gene expression of mouse pancreatic ductal ... > full story -
Study Finds Potential to Match Tumors With Known Cancer Drugs
February 5, 2013 — Researchers have found a new way to match potential cancer treatments with an individual tumor: assess the landscape of kinases and find a kinase inhibitor that goes after the highest-expressing ... > full story -
Gene May Help Predict Best Chemotherapy Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer Patients
February 5, 2013 — Researchers have identified a gene that may better predict survival for pancreatic adenocarcinoma, the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. The scientists conducted a study ... > full story -
Drug Combination Extends Pancreatic Cancer Patient Survival, Study Suggests
January 22, 2013 — A multi-center Phase III clinical trial demonstrates that Abraxane (nab-paclitaxel) plus gemcitabine is the first combination of cancer drugs to extend survival of late-stage pancreatic cancer ... > full story -
Cancer Mortality Down 20 Percent from 1991 Peak
January 17, 2013 — An annual report from the American Cancer Society finds as of 2009, the overall death rate for cancer in the United States had declined 20 percent from its peak in 1991, translating to the avoidance ... > full story -
New Molecule to Target in Pancreatic Cancer Treatment
January 3, 2013 — Researchers have identified a new target to improve treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cancer, which accounts for more than 95 percent of pancreatic cancer ... > full story -
Gene Variation May Shape Bladder Cancer Treatment, Study Suggests
January 3, 2013 — Patients who have inherited a specific common genetic variant develop bladder cancer tumors that strongly express a protein known as prostate stem cell antigen (PSCA), which is also expressed in many ... > full story -
How Innate Immune Cells Are Involved in the Development of Type 1 Diabetes
December 19, 2012 — A new study by researchers in France sheds light on type 1 diabetes -- a disease characterized by the self-destruction of the pancreatic cells that produce insulin. The research reveals the role of ... > full story
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