Often diagnosed too late, hope for pancreatic cancer may be on the horizon.
It is often not until more serious symptoms, including dramatic unintended weight loss or jaundice, present that the possibility of pancreatic cancer comes up.While there are currently no approved early detection tests for pancreatic cancer, researchers say there are promising possibilities — particularly in blood tests that can pick up biomarkers for it.
Because pancreatic cancer is relatively rare, experts do not believe universal screening should be done. They say it would make the most sense to test those at high risk for it, which includes people with a close family member diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, or people over 50 years old who have received a new diagnosis of diabetes — which in some cases can be an early, overlooked sign of the disease.
"Something that makes pancreatic cancer difficult is the tumor itself is surrounded by a dense microenvironment, so it makes getting the drug delivery difficult," said Julie Fleshman, president and CEO of the patient advocacy organization Pancreatic Cancer Action Network."It's like the rind of a watermelon."
published research that found that a combination treatment strategy that changes the way pancreatic cancer tumors receive nutrients can essentially starve the cancer cells.
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