Category: Pancreatic Cancer
Breakthrough drug nearly doubles survival with advanced pancreatic cancer
An oncologist explains how daraxonrasib overcame an ‘undruggable’ disease
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Are New Immune-Based Treatments for Kidney and Pancreatic Cancer on the Horizon?
New immune-based treatments for kidney and pancreatic cancer have shown promising results in two small clinical trials. In both trials, the treatments appeared to prevent cancer from returning in patients who had successful surgery to remove their tumors. The treatments are called therapeutic cancer vaccines because they help the immune system eliminate an existing cancer.
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New cancer diagnoses did not rebound as expected following pandemic
Cancer incidence trends in 2021 largely returned to what they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
However, there was little evidence of a rebound in incidence that would account for the decline in diagnoses in 2020, when screening and other medical care was disrupted.
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Pancreatic cancer: challenges and advances
Pancreatic cancer remains a major cancer killer, but advances are happening, writes cancer specialist.
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