Pancreatic cancer starts in your pancreas, an organ that makes digestive juices and hormones, including insulin. There are two main types of pancreatic cancers—those that start in the exocrine gland ...

More than 67,000 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year. Learn more about the disease and how PanCAN can help.

Dr. Flavio Rocha is part of a team of OHSU surgeons who are making surgery an option for more pancreatic cancer patients than ever. Pancreatic cancer starts when cells grow out of control in the ...

“The problem with pancreatic cancer is that we often catch it too late,” said Jared Fischer, a scientist with OHSU Knight Cancer Institute’s Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research Center ...

When a routine scan led to Barbara Brigham's pancreatic cancer diagnosis in 2020, all she could think about was how she wanted more time. Her husband had just passed away. She loved her local ...

Patients with pancreatic cancer who participate in clinical research have better outcomes. PanCAN strongly recommends clinical trials at diagnosis and during every treatment decision. Clinical trials ...

Pancreatic cancer exploits nerve connections to promote its growth. Blocking these nerve functions in mice inhibited tumor growth and enhanced the effectiveness of chemotherapies and immunotherapies.

The pancreas is a large gland in the abdomen. It secretes pancreatic juices into the small intestine to digest food, and secretes insulin into the bloodstream to regulate glucose levels.

Pancreatic cancer often grows and spreads silently before it's discovered. For this reason, most cases of pancreatic cancer are difficult to treat. The uncomfortable fact is that anyone can get ...

A new blood test could diagnose pancreatic cancer much earlier, improving survival rates for people with the disease. A large part of the reason for this poor prognosis is that pancreatic cancer ...

Pancreatic cancer has a low survival rate and is usually found too late — this new test may help change that Getty Researchers have developed an inexpensive blood test that they say can detect p ...