Finally some promising news about pancreatic cancer, one of the most fatal cancers, due to the difficulties of early detection and the lack of effective therapies

Although the outlook for most people with pancreatic cancer today is bleak, researchers believe that improved screening methods and experimental treatments may someday give patients more hope.New experiments involve screening people who are at high risk for pancreatic cancer because they have two or more close relatives with the disease, says Margaret Tempero, a pancreatic cancer expert at the University of California-San Francisco.