On either side of the middle of your back are your kidneys. Your kidneys help filter waste and toxins from your blood so they can be passed from your body as urine. Your pancreas sits behind your ...

TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Amid a rise in people developing a painful condition called pancreatitis, doctors are looking to a rare procedure to help patients with this chronic pain — creating a ...

When John Nowoj was diagnosed with locally advanced pancreatic cancer in August 2019, he was told the cancer was inoperable. Nowoj, 57, began pursuing his only treatment option: chemotherapy to be ...

A new study published in the journal of BMC Surgery found a combination of high-titer pancreatic enzyme and zinc ...

The FDA and European Medicines Agency (EMA) have awarded orphan drug designation to CPI-008 (cRGD-ZW800-1), a novel ...

Chronic pancreatitis, a painful, debilitating condition, often requires major surgery to remove all or part of the pancreas. Few large studies have evaluated how these patients fare five years or more ...

Despite advances in cancer treatment, pancreatic cancer still has a poor prognosis and has one of the lowest survival rates of any cancer. The Whipple procedure, also called a pancreaticoduodenectomy, ...

Pancreatic cancer is a resilient killer whose survival rates have hardly improved in recent decades. It is expected to become the second biggest cause of cancer-related death globally by 2030. Without ...

Pancreatic metastases are rare and frequently misdiagnosed, leaving clinicians uncertain about how to assess prognosis and select optimal treatment. In a recent large single-center retrospective study ...

Lucknow: A large pancreatic tumour measuring over 10 cm was successfully removed from a 20-year-old woman using ...