Latest Pancreatic ductal carcinoma Stories

Smoking has once again been implicated in the development of advanced cancer. Exposure to nicotine by way of cigarette smoking may increase the likelihood that pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma will become metastatic, according to researchers from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson. Their study was published in the August edition of the journal Surgery.The culprit behind the increased metastasis potential appears to be an isoform (variant type) of a protein called osteopontin, according...