In a ground breaking new study researchers have found that by inhibiting the action of a certain enzyme, known as TAK-1, it is possible to make pancreatic cancer cells more sensitive to chemotherapy treatments, paving the way to new and more effective treatments for the disease, which is currently considered incurable in most cases. Dr [...]

Dealing with difficulties of depression may decrease a cancer patient’s chance of eventual survival or hasten the progression of their physical disease, according to a recent study that will be published in the November 2009 edition of the publication Cancer. There have previously been a number of studies conducted that showed that a patients overall [...]

Pancreatic cancer is still very much a dangerous and all too often fatal disease. Because there are really very few ways to accurately screen for risk and in the early stages, symptoms are apparent it is exceptionally difficult for medical professionals to treat properly. It is estimated that most of the people who are diagnosed [...]