More than 66,000 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year. Learn more about the disease and how PanCAN can help.

Pancreatic cancer is a disease in which malignant cells originate in the pancreatic tissue. Cancer of the exocrine component of the pancreas (adenocarcinomas) represents the majority of pancreatic ...

Multiple diagnostic criteria have been proposed. For example, the Japanese Pancreas Society (2002 and 2006) and Histology, Imaging, Serology, Other Organ Involvement and Response to therapy (HISORt).

Background The immune suppression mechanisms in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remain unknown, but preclinical studies have implicated macrophage-mediated immune tolerance. Hence, pathways ...

such as the deep location of the tumor and its high-grade histology. Given the propensity for metastatic spread to the lungs of large, deep, high-grade sarcomas of the extremity, it was necessary ...