The best shot at curing cancer is catching it early, doctors say, but that doesn't always happen. Between 80% and 85% of pancreatic cancer cases aren't diagnosed until the aggressive and lethal ...

Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most challenging tumors to treat, partly because it is often discovered at advanced stages when the disease has already spread, or metastasized. About half of ...

A UCLA-developed nanoparticle is aiming to reprogram the liver in humans to attack pancreatic cancer with an mRNA vaccine (curved, hatched red lines) and an immune-activating fragment of genetic ...

Diabetes and insulin resistance are often spoken about in the context of heart disease, obesity, or lifestyle disorders. But ...

Dr. Shaun P. McKenzie is board certified in general surgery and in surgical oncology, hepatobiliary surgery, and pancreatic surgery. He is a surgical oncologist with Texas Oncology Surgical ...

As of 2021, researchers estimated that about 10.5% of the global adult population has diabetes, with 90% of that number having type 2 diabetes. Both obesity and type 2 diabetes are known risk factors ...

Learn how everyday habits like smoking, poor diet, obesity and alcohol raise pancreatic cancer risk, plus smart lifestyle ...

Fibrolamellar carcinoma, a rare liver cancer affecting young adults, resists immunotherapy due to T-cell sequestration. Researchers found that combining AMD3100 with immune checkpoint inhibitors can ...

Pancreatic cancer has long been one of the most lethal diagnoses in medicine, largely because it spreads early and hides from ...

Immunotherapy – which activates the body's own immune system to kill cancer cells – has not worked well against a rare and ...