PanCAN Chief Scientific & Medical Officer Dr. Anna Berkenblit writes about the critical federal funding at risk and what this ...
Understanding your tumor biology is key to finding the right treatment for pancreatic cancer. Identifying mutations, or changes in a cell’s DNA, can help doctors understand how cancer might grow and ...
PanCAN offers tips and resources for patients and caregivers to maintain good nutrition through small and frequent meals.
Joan Vassos, “Star Trek” Team, Days of our Lives’ Martha Madison & Eric Martsolf, Eric Idle, Lisa Swayze, and Judge [...] ...
Immunotherapy is a treatment that helps your immune system attack cancer cells. You get it through an injection, IV or pill that is swallowed. How Does Immuntotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer Work? Your ...
More than 67,000 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year. Learn more about the disease and how PanCAN can help.
Targeted therapy is cancer treatment that uses drugs to attack unique aspects of cancer cells with little harm to healthy cells. Targeted therapies often work by binding to a particular molecule in ...
All cancers are genetic. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is in every cell in our bodies. Each DNA strand contains many genes. All cancers begin when DNA mutations, or changes, cause cells to divide and ...
Food brings joy and comfort. Home, family and a sense of history are often woven into the preparation of favorite meals. Although a pancreatic cancer diagnosis can create challenges in a patient’s ...