Cases of illness and death of Steve Jobs, Apple's founder, which is caused by pancreatic cancer has been giving lesson to us that this disease is still deadly and current medical treatments has not been able to totally eradicate the cancer and side effects of treatments. Therefore, prevention and early safe-treatment ...

The complication of technique that combines the use of endoscope (to looking inside the body for medical reasons) and fluoroscope (to obtain real-time moving images of the internal structure of patient) as diagnosing method and treat certain problems of the biliary or pancreatic ductal system, still had the risk of ...

A new study support that vitamin D may protect against autoimmune diseases and certain cancers from their interacts with genes specific for colorectal cancer, multiple sclerosis, diabetes type 1, and other diseases. The researchers found the evidence on increased binding for colorectal cancer, multiple sclerosis, lupus, Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and ...

In the survival comparison of adjuvant trial for pancreatic cancer between fluorouracil and gemcitabine, the researchers found that there is no better improvement of overall survival from treated by gemcitabine (Gemzar) than fluorouracil plus folinic acid. The study results, showed the median survival treated by gemcitabine was 23.6 months, and 23.0 ...

Pancreatic cancer can establish from endrocrine and exocrine portions of the pancreas which is 95% of tumor develops from exocrine portion. The prognosis of pancreatic cancer in their first metastatic start to local nodes of lymph, next may spread to the liver and lungs including surrounding visceral organs (duodenum, stomach, colon ...