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PanCAN Chief Scientific & Medical Officer Dr. Anna Berkenblit writes about the key takeaways from the ASCO 2025 Annual ...
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Taking an active role in your cancer care Talking to your healthcare and support team about your needs Educating yourself You are not the only person responsible for your care. Self-advocacy means ...
6/10/25. Thanks to the incredible advocacy of PanCAN community members like you, 113 bipartisan members of the House signed on to the Sewell-J Joyce pancreatic cancer FY26 Dear Colleague letter to ...
Black Americans are more likely to get pancreatic cancer than any other racial or ethnic group. They have the highest incidence rate of pancreatic cancer in the United States, according to the ...
Data published in Lancet Oncology in 2020 showed that PanCAN’s Know Your Tumor® precision medicine service can help pancreatic cancer patients live longer. The results showed, for the first time, that ...
Editor’s Note: Riley Cherkes lost her dad, Dave, in 2020 after a diagnosis of stage IV pancreatic cancer in 2018. Riley found PanCAN when he was diagnosed, searching for everything she could possibly ...
American Cancer Society’s Cancer Facts & Figures 2023, released today, reports that the five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is now 12%, an increase of one percentage point from last year..
For the first time in more than a decade, the FDA has approved a new first-line treatment for patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer.After a clinical trial showed a positive survival benefit, the ...
For the third year in the row, the five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer has increased one percentage point, according to the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Facts & Figures 2024 Report ...
Editor’s note: With the passing of talk show host and politician Jerry Springer from pancreatic cancer, we wanted to share the common signs and symptoms of the disease. If you or a loved one have been ...
Editor’s note: Acclaimed author Judy Blume is sharing today’s story with you, which she wrote about her husband George’s pancreatic cancer diagnosis and treatment. Blume has published 29 books ...