Sentences with phrase «by pancreatic cancer»

My Treatment stories are written by pancreatic cancer patients about their experiences with science - driven treatments.

Signs and symptoms may be caused by pancreatic cancer or by other conditions.

The study, funded by the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, examined the role of Hedgehog, whose usual job is to send signals to cells in embryos to divide and grow into the correct body parts.

«One promising strategy to reduce the number of people affected by pancreatic cancer is to identify and treat premalignant pancreatic lesions,» said first author Jennifer Permuth - Wey, Ph.D., M.S., assistant member in the Departments of Cancer Epidemiology and Gastrointestinal Oncology at Moffitt.

Materials provided by Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund.

The study, funded in part by the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network and The National Pancreas Foundation, also was the first to evaluate a test that employed a more sensitive genetic sequencing method called next - generation sequencing and the first to be performed in a certified and accredited clinical laboratory as opposed to a research setting.

The marker of antigens produced by pancreatic cancer has a low positive predictive value for identifying early stage disease.

But their overriding interest in BPTES, says Slusher, was in how it works: by blocking the production of glutamine, an amino acid that acts as a building block of cells and is used frequently by pancreatic cancers to create more cancer cells.

The charity was set up by a pancreatic cancer survivor, Ali Stunt, three years after her diagnosis in 2007.

Our understanding of the basis of immune suppression is evolving, but we know that it involves the production of the chemokine, CXCL12, by the fibroblastic stromal cells, binding of this CXCL12 by pancreatic cancer cells, and exclusion of T cells from the vicinity of the cancer cells.

The life of the NASA astronaut and science campaigner Sally Ride was cut short by pancreatic cancer on Monday, but her influence will long endure.

Any not - for - profit patient advocacy organization that provides services or disseminates information to those affected by pancreatic cancer can become a member of the World Pancreatic Cancer Coalition.

A clinical trial, funded by the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, has been started to see if these analyses can predict which patients at risk for pancreatic cancer will develop tumors.

The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network is a nationwide network of people dedicated to working together to advance research, support patients and create hope for those affected by pancreatic cancer.