Radiotherapy - Radiotherapy: Pancreatic cancer Patients can now also be irradiated in the Netherlands with CyberKnife

February 27, 2011: from cancer news moved to here:

Source: BBC news:

In England last week, the first patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer successfully treated with a new CyberKnife machine. An interesting development because pancreatic cancer often quickly inoperable and therefore incurable. Here the message of BBC news copy with some pictures of the new machine. An employee from the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam pointed out to me that some of these CyberKnife machines in the Netherlands...

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General: operable pancreatic cancer patients with overexpression of Her2-Neu have significantly shorter survival time than patients with normal pancreatic Her2-Neu expression values.

May 7, 2012: In this article are some links restored and added information. If you click here, a full study report for free to see the role of Her2-Neu expression in pancreatic cancer

HER2/neu Expression and Gene Alterations in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: A Comparative Immunohistochemistry and Chromogenic In Situ Hybridization Study Based on Tissue Microarrays and Computerized Image Analysis

May 14, 2009: Source: 1:

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Regular - pancreatic cancer - pancreatic cancer: current developments and important studies within mainstream oncology: an overview

Starchy foods such as white bread, white rice and potatoes increases the chances of getting pancreatic cancer

A large U.S. study has once again confirmed that diet and lack of exercise plays a major role in the development of cancer. Researcher Fuchs has 89,000 people, all nurses, for years and followed their diet recorded and linked to whether or not getting pancreatic cancer. This study shows that people have an increased risk of 57% have of getting pancreatic cancer if a starchy food is eaten. Starchy means white bread, white rice, potatoes etc. This combined with too...

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Meat and especially processed meat feeding 50% more likely to develop pancreatic cancer shows large 7-year study of 190,545 adults.

May 31, 2011: see also the newest findings of the WCRF about the relationship between lifestyle and diet and cancer risk. Click here for latest study data

May 2005: Source: ASCO 2005 and Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 97, No.. 19, 1458-1465, October 5, 2005 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/dji292

Eating meat, especially processed meat provides an additional high risk of getting pancreatic cancer shows large 7-year study of nearly 200,000 adults. Effects of...



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Vitamin D on normal values ​​bring halves risk of pancreatic cancer show two large studies.

May 31, 2011: see also the newest findings of the WCRF about the relationship between lifestyle and diet and cancer risk. Click here for latest study data

September 13, 2006: Source: September issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention

Daily intake of a certain amount of vitamin D (400 IU per day) halves the risk (43%) of getting alvleeskleirkanker. this evidence the results of several large studies involving more than 100,000 participants. Who took...



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Fruits and vegetables seem no preventive effect on the risk of developing pancreatic cancer specifically, said large European prospective study, but is in contradiction with other studies

May 31, 2011: see also the newest findings of the WCRF about the relationship between lifestyle and diet and cancer risk. Click here for latest study data

April 21, 2009: Source: 1: Int J Cancer. 2009 Apr 15; 124 (8) :1926-34.

Eating lots of fruits and vegetables seems no preventive effect on the risk of pancreatic cancer to get....

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Folic acid ingested through diet protects against pancreatic cancer, but folic acid supplementation does not shows large prospective study.

May 31, 2011: see also the newest findings of the WCRF about the relationship between lifestyle and diet and cancer risk. Click here for latest study data



March 22, 2006: Source: J Natl Cancer Inst 2006; 98:407-413

Daily folic acid supplement ingested through foods rich in folic acid reduces risk of pancreatic cancer . However, additional folic acid through supplementation appears to have no effect and prevention of pancreatic cancer, reports...





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Aspirin can further metastases from cancers of the type adenocarcinomas occur. This shows a large meta-analysis of randomized trials, published in The Lancet

May 7, 2012: The Lancet Source

Daily aspirin prevents metastases from cancers of the type adenocarcinomas, according to a large meta anlayse dozens of randomized trials. Adenocarcinomas occur frequently in digestive cancers, including colon cancer and pancreatic cancer . If you click here you can see the full study report on the website of The Lancet . Here is the abstract of the study.

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