An investigational exosome-based liquid biopsy accurately detected 97% of stage 1-2 pancreatic cancers when combined with the biomarker CA 19-9, according to research presented at the American ...

More and more people are being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. This disease is insidious, often only making itself known in ...

The danger comes in mistaking a cystic pancreatic neoplasm for a pseudocyst and incorrectly draining a cystic neoplasm into the gastrointestinal tract rather than resecting the neoplasm. For this ...

Dry suction is noninferior to wet suction in terms of diagnostic accuracy in endoscopic ultrasound–guided fine-needle biopsy ...

Pancreatic cancer occurs when malignant (cancerous) cells form in the pancreas, an organ located between the stomach and the spine, deep within the abdomen. Though relatively rare, pancreatic ...

The condition isn’t merely caused by an overflow of fat from the liver into the pancreas in people who consume more calories than they burn, Petrov said. Neither robust postmortem nor biopsy ...

The pancreas is an oblong flattened gland, about six inches long, located deep in the abdomen, sandwiched between the stomach and the spine. It has five main parts – the tail, body, neck, head and ...