Early diagnosis of less survivable cancers could save 7,500 lives annually. The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Less Survivable Cancers has released a pivotal report urging the UK Government to prioritise faster diagnosis of less survivable cancers, which include those of the brain, liver, lung, pancreas, oesophagus, and stomach. The report includes new analysis of existing […]
Pancreatic cancer cells can change their ‘diet’ to keep growing, by switching from the sugar glucose to a back-up fuel called uridine, new research reveals. The findings suggest that blocking the availability of uridine using new drugs could become a new treatment strategy for the most common and aggressive form of pancreatic cancer. The researchers […]
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Diagnosis for Pancreatic cancer could be expedited: Pancreatic cancer could be identified in patients up to three years earlier than current diagnoses, new research suggests. Weight loss and increasing blood glucose levels are early indicators of pancreatic cancer and could lead to a more timely diagnosis, helping to improve survival rates. In the largest study […]
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Scientists have shown it is possible to reverse a key process that allows pancreatic cancer cells to grow and spread around the body. These findings, published in Nature, show that a protein called GREM1 is key to regulating the type of cells found in pancreatic cancer – and manipulating its levels can both fuel and […]
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Thousands of pancreatic cancer patients will be entitled to a free continuous glucose monitoring machine on repeat prescription for the first time ever thanks to new NICE guidelines – but most people still don’t realise they’re entitled to one. National charity Pancreatic Cancer Action wants to empower diabetes 3C sufferers this Diabetes Week (13th – […]
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A newly published study (Lancet Oncology) reveals that cancer patients in the UK still face worse survival rates than other comparable high-income countries. Pancreatic Cancer Action is calling for specific policy targets for pancreatic cancer as survival rates for the disease are particularly poor. In general, five-year cancer survival is improving across all the countries […]
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Pancreatic Cancer Action joined a number of charities, NHS cancer programme representatives, Cally Palmer (National cancer director) and Steve Brine (MP for Cancer) to discuss the recently released NHS long term plan. This is an ambitious ten-year plan, backed by five-year funding, with a big focus on cancer. Everyone in the room acknowledged that the […]
As a star-studded crowd in Detroit wished a final farewell to Aretha Franklin the Queen of Soul, a relatively unheard-of group of patients around the world reflected on the suffering they had shared with her: neuroendocrine cancer. For the last seven years of her life, Aretha Franklin was being treated for a type of ‘pancreatic […]
Pancreatic Cancer UK has received accreditation from the Information Standard for the fourth year in a row for its range of publications about pancreatic cancer. The resources aim to assist healthcare professionals in giving advice on the disease, and help them provide the best support to patients and their carers. The charity began publishing information […]
Pancreatic cancer is a truly tough challenge for researchers but a ‘back to basics’ approach to pancreatic cancer research can save more lives . The disease has the lowest survival rate of the 20 most common cancers, and less than seven per cent of patients in the UK will live beyond five years. Survival rates […]
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