Monthly Archives: March 2013
From What Cells Does Pancreatic Cancer Arise?
Now comes a fascinating study by researchers from UC San Francisco and UC San Diego that tends to refute the common knowledge that pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells arise from genetic mutations in the PANCREATIC DUCT LINING CELLS. Published in the November 29th 2012 issue of the journal Cancer Cell, Dr. Maike Sander and colleagues have shown […]
The Re-Treatment of Recurrent Pancreatic Cancer – Revisited
We discussed two recent studies on the apparent benefits of possible re-treatment of recurrent pancreatic cancer (ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas) in our Pancreatica Blog entry of November 17, 2012. Now there are two more interesting medical articles on this subject that have been recently published. Werner and colleagues from the University of Heidelberg (including […]