Author Archives: pancreatica

BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are important in the repair and upkeep of DNA. Mutations in these genes confer a strong tendency to not only more widely known breast cancer, but to other kinds of cancers as well – including contributing to some amount of pancreatic cancer (ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas). Now, researchers from the […]

Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors can roughly be divided into functioning and non-functioning categories. The functioning tumors produce an abundance of a given hormone such that the clinical effects of this overabundance can be observed or felt by physicians and/or patients. Non-functioning pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors produce no hormone, or produce such hormones in sub-clinical quantity, or produce […]

Researchers from the University of Texas / MD Anderson Cancer Center published an interesting recent study in the journal Cancer on the treatment and assessment of so-called neoadjuvant therapy in borderline resectable pancreatic cancer (ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas). “Neoadjuvant” is a word that denotes typically the medical and/or radiological treatment of pancreatic cancer BEFORE […]

Canzian and estimable European colleagues including Dr. John Neoptolemos of Liverpool University (and again our Professor Markus Buchler of the University of Heidelberg / Pancreatica Science Board)  in a February 2013 article in the Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention – a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research through their newly formed collaborative called […]

Spanish research Fulgar and colleagues published a recent article in the journal Anticancer Research detailing the results of their multi-center Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating oral erlotinib (Tarceva – 150 mg per day) coupled with the also orally administered capecitabine (Xeloda) in pancreatic cancer (ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas).  Capecitabine is a pro-drug of 5-FU […]