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The pancreas produces important hormones – especially insulin, which regulates blood sugar, and ghrelin, which stimulates appetite. If the function of the pancreas is disturbed, diabetes can be the result, but gastrointestinal diseases such as pancreatitis are also highly relevant in medicine – as is pancreatic cancer, which is one of the most aggressive and deadly tumour types.

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News • Fibroblasts promote tumor growth and spread

Study explores reasons behind high aggressiveness of pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive cancers, partly due to its tumor microenvironment, known as the stroma. Now, a study has identified a new key factor contributing to this feature of…

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News • Targeting early versions

A 'head start' in the race against pancreatic cancer

Fighting pancreatic cancer can feel like a race against time. A new discovery could give clinicians a head start - by targeting precancerous lesions before they become much more aggressive.

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News • Extracellular microenvironments

Advancing diabetes treatment with 3D bioprinting

Leveraging bioink from pancreatic tissue and 3D bioprinting, researchers developed a structure closely mimicking the structure of a pancreas, in which cultured cells can resume insulin production.

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Article • Imaging modality comparison presented at RSNA 2024

Photon-counting CT advances identification of pancreatic cystic lesions

Pancreatic cystic lesions – indicating an increased risk of pancreatic cancer – are an occasional incidental finding in routine computed tomography (CT) abdominal imaging. New research suggests…

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News • Multi-omics-based prediction

Pancreatic cancer: 'biomarker panel' brings hope for early detection

The discovery of a 'biomarker panel' could have a profound impact on the ability to identify patients at risk of developing pancreatic cancer at an earlier stage, researchers hope.

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News • DTI reveals intraepithelial neoplasia

Detecting pre-malignant pancreatic lesions with diffusion tensor MRI

In a new study, researchers have shown, for the first time, that a particular form of MRI, called diffusion tensor imaging, is capable of robustly detecting pre-malignant lesions in the pancreas.

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Sponsored • Brachytherapy in LAPC patients

Innovative Avenue of Treatment – Internal Radiotherapy for Locally Advanced Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer

In more than one in six patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the tumour is initially diagnosed at a non-metastatic primarily unresectable, locally advanced stage (LAPC). For these patients, a new internal radiation procedure, OncoSil™ brachytherapy, may become a treatment option – in Germany, around 858 patients could benefit from this innovation annually.

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Article • Visceral imaging

Endosonography: AI takes on the “supreme discipline”

Endosonography poses unique challenges for medical professionals, because two demanding disciplines have to be mastered at the same time. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) could help speed up the notoriously slow learning curve of the procedure, says Prof Dr Christoph F. Dietrich. At the Visceral Medicine Congress in Hamburg, the expert explained how AI can help endosonography achieve…

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