Irene Wells didn't ask just how bad her pancreatic cancer was — she just wanted aggressive treatment so she could do "a ...

The goal of this study was to investigate the clinical outcome and prognostic factors in patients after resection for ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic head. Methods The data from 195 ...

The pancreas is an oblong flattened gland, about six inches long, located deep in the abdomen, sandwiched between the stomach and the spine. It has five main parts – the tail, body, neck, head and ...

Obstructive jaundice is often the first symptom of malignant disease of the pancreas (for example, pancreatic ampullary carcinoma and carcinoma of the papilla of Vater). As jaundice increases ...

The pancreas is an organ behind the stomach and near the spleen. It performs both exocrine and endocrine functions. The ...

A distal pancreatectomy is the removal of the end of the pancreas while leaving the pancreatic head attached. It is performed to treat pancreatic cancer localized in the end of the pancreas, but may ...

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.