Pancreatic cancerchemotherapymultiple white matter lesionsThis 52-year-old male without a significant medical history was receiving chemotherapy with diethylnorspermine (DENSPM), a polyamine analogue, for a partially resected pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Ten months after his initial diagnosis, he was admitted...
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a highly aggressive malignancy and ranks as the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States [1]. This high mortality is partly due to the absence of specific symptoms and signs, and the lack of early detection tests for PC, as well as the...
Because pancreatic cancer often has no symptoms in the early stages, it is often found in later stages, which makes curing the disease more difficult. Treatment for pancreatic cancer depends on the stage, or extent, of the cancer, as well as the patient's health. Treatment options include su...
tumor desmoplasia and stiffness, reduces cancer cell invasion and metastasis, improves tumor perfusion and enhances the efficacy of chemotherapy in the autochthonous genetically engineered KPC model, while also demonstrating antifibrotic effects in human patient-derived xenograft models of pancreatic cancer. ...
Pancreatic cancer is the fourth major cause of cancer-related deaths. About 50% of the patients are diagnosed with advanced disease. Metastatic disease to the colon is a very rare entity with only 5 cases described in english literature. Case presentation Male, 60 years-old, presents to a sur...
Pancreatic cancer tends topresent at a late stage, largely due to the often vague and non-specificnature of symptoms seen early in the disease process. At a later stage,specific clinical featurescan be seen and depend on the site of the tumour: ...
It is possible that prediagnosis CT imaging might have been performed for symptoms or signs related to the subsequently diagnosed cancer. Nevertheless, the indications for imaging were largely similar between cases and controls, and the imaging did not identify a clear pancreas mass based on a ...
Gastroenterology clinic, University of Dicle within last 10 years.There were 55 patients in our study who obtained by screening the past files fromlast 10 years' registry.The gender disturbance was 64% male and 36% female in our pancreaticcancer patients with a male-to-female ratio of 1.75 /...
Microbiome abundance differences were found between PDAC patients with symptoms and patients without symptoms. Combined symptom and microbiome evaluation may help in early detection and risk prediction of pancreatic cancer. Citation: Wei AL, Li M, Li GQ, Wang X, Hu WM, Li ZL, Yuan J, Liu HY...
When appear weight loss, abdominal pain or gastrointestinal symptoms, PA is usually advanced [66]. Sister Mary Joseph nodule (umbilical metastatic lesion) and Virchow's node (left supraclavicular lymph node) are also well-described features of advanced disease. Show abstract Pancreatic cancer a ...