Posted on July 30th, 2008 by
Heavy smoking and drinking, especially beer, may hasten the onset of pancreatic cancer. Beer appears to exert a stronger influence than hard liquor or wine in lowering the age of onset of pancreatic cancer. Researcher Anderson and her colleagues evaluated patients from The Pancreatic Cancer Collaborative Registry, a multi-center, international patient registry, looking at whether [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by
The American Cancer Society predicts that, in 2007, about 37,170 people in the United States will be found to have pancreatic cancer and about 33,370 will die of the disease. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest of all cancers with one of the lowest survival rates. According to the American Cancer Society, only about 5% [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by
Pancreas is responsible for producing insulin which regulates the sugar level in the body. All those who know what diabetes is would know the importance of insulin in body (and hence the importance of pancreas). Pancreas also produces pancreatic juice which helps in digestion of food. When abnormal growth of cells (malignant cells) occurs in [...]
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