BACKGROUND: Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) are uncommon and heterogeneous neoplasms, often exhibiting indolent biological behavior. Their incidence is rising, largely due to the widespread ...

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest of all cancers. Only 12% of men diagnosed with pancreatic cancer are alive five years after diagnosis; for women it is 14%. In pancreatic cancer ...

Exclusion criteria were: (1) diagnosis based on cytology; (2) male patients; (3) missing key data including 7th edition AJCC stage, estrogen receptor (ER) status, progesterone receptor (PR) status, ...

When a child develops a brain tumor, early diagnosis is essential. Alan Cohen, M.D., director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, shares the most common signs and symptoms ...

In three patients the FNA was repeated due to non-diagnostic initial cytology ... pancreas. Of these 82 patients 32 died, including 31 (97%) with pancreatic adenocarcinoma, and one with a ...

Nanomedicine Research Center, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510630, China Department of Radiology, Biomedical Innovation Center, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun ...

Tumors of the pancreatic head and the periampullary region can be resected using pancreaticoduodenectomy (with or without preservation of the pylorus), whereas a distal pancreatectomy should be ...

The result was reduced tumor growth across four types of cancers: breast cancer, melanoma, pancreatic cancer, and colon cancer. While more research will be required to further optimize this approach ...