A new blood-based test could diagnose pancreatic cancer much earlier, improving outcomes for people with the disease.

The symptoms of pancreatic cancer can be nonspecific, which means identifying the disease is often a challenge.

The life expectancy of people with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome depends on the location of a person’s gastric tumors and whether or not they have metastasized (spread) to the liver. Keep reading ...

According to Johns Hopkins Pathology, pancreatic cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death in the United States. It's more common in African Americans and is often diagnosed in advanced ...

liver resection, or metastasectomy of the lungs. In one patient, cerebral metastasis was treated by stereotactic irradiation. Local recurrence of pancreatic disease was seen in one patient and was ...

many advanced patients became eligible for resection of pancreatic cancer, bringing a chance of cure. Those who remained ineligible also saw their average life expectancy extending from eight or ...

The pancreas is hidden behind other organs, such as the stomach, liver ... tumors do not spread to tissues around them or to other parts of the body. Most important, benign tumors are rarely a threat ...

“For example, Steve Jobs died of pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer which had spread to his liver ... spread to other parts of ...