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[NoelSeven]

A subject near and dear to my heart, as we have lost three people we dearly loved to this terrible disease.

"...a new UC San Francisco study has shed light on the origins of one type of deadly pancreatic cancer."

UCSF researchers report the identification of a key gene that normally holds tumor development at bay but, when damaged by mutation, allows pancreatic tumors to develop. It is hoped this new finding will lead to earlier and better treatment.

By the time pancreatic cancer is discovered in a patient, it is usually too late. Only about 6 percent of those in the United States who are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer will be alive five years from now.

Pancreatic cancer receives little press but now kills nearly as many as breast cancer. The American Cancer Society estimates that 40,430 will die of breast cancer in 2014, while 39,590 will die of pancreatic cancer.

More information here:

http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/03/112216/key-pancreatic-cancer-defect-identified-ucsf-researchers

[JuJu Squeezie]

Thanks Noel, that's excellent, exciting etc. Anything to shed light on this cancer is wonderful.

Hiya too!

[Lila Belle]

[JaneMarple]

Thank you Noel, my mother in law, my sister's husband and my cousin have all died from this cancer. In the case of my MIL and cousin's DH, both were diagnosed in the hospital and died the following week.

[NoelSeven]

On 3/5/2014 Panda Wrangler said:

Thanks Noel, that's excellent, exciting etc. Anything to shed light on this cancer is wonderful.

Hiya too!

Hi PW

There have also been two breakthroughs which will require further study but promise to help identify pancreatic cancer earlier than the common stage four.

One of those breakthroughs was by an American teenager

[JaneMarple]

On 3/5/2014 NoelSeven said:

On 3/5/2014 Panda Wrangler said:

Thanks Noel, that's excellent, exciting etc. Anything to shed light on this cancer is wonderful.

Hiya too!

Hi PW

There have also been two breakthroughs which will require further study but promise to help identify pancreatic cancer earlier than the common stage four.

One of those breakthroughs was by an American teenager

I recently read about this too.

[NoelSeven]

On 3/5/2014 JaneMarple said:

Thank you Noel, my mother in law, my sister's husband and my cousin have all died from this cancer. In the case of my MIL and cousin's DH, both were diagnosed in the hospital and died the following week.

Oh, Jane, I'm so sorry to hear that. It seems to me that pancreatic cancer is on the rise, only because I don't remember hearing a lot about it years ago.

I know there are several kinds of pancreatic cancer, and I feel sure one type at least may have a genetic connection.

[PuppyBreath]

To me this is good news that is coming at a snail's pace. It will never help my late husband of course, but maybe my grandchildren.

[Topaz Gem]

This is good news, but it seems that when we make significant strides with one type of cancer, another type rears its ugly head and gains strength. Cancer has taken several in my family as well, so I sincerely hope that doctors and researchers can some day bring this disease to its knees once and for all.

[JuJu Squeezie]

Thanks Noel, I am so pleased that this deadly cancer is being studied and so hopeful it will be found earlier and treated more specifically. I want people to have a good fighting chance. if not avoid it all together.