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Juxtapapillary duodenal diverticulum masquerading as a cystic pancreatic neoplasm.

Mallappa S, Jiao LR

Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Department of HPB Surgery, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College , London W12 0NN , UK.

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Source: PubMed

PLoS ONE    

Inhibition of hedgehog signaling antagonizes serous ovarian cancer growth in a primary xenograft model.

McCann CK, Growdon WB, Kulkarni-Datar K, Curley MD, Friel AM, Proctor JL, Sheikh H, Deyneko I, Ferguson JA, Vathipadiekal V, Birrer MJ, Borger DR, Mohapatra G, Zukerberg LR, Foster R, Macdougall JR, Rueda BR

Department of Vincent Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Recent evidence links aberrant activation of Hedgehog (Hh) signaling with the pathogenesis of several cancers including medulloblastoma, basal cell, s... Read More

Source: PubMed

PLoS ONE    

Acute pancreatitis accelerates initiation and progression to pancreatic cancer in mice expressing oncogenic kras in the nestin cell lineage.

Carričre C, Young AL, Gunn JR, Longnecker DS, Korc M

Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America.

Targeting of oncogenic Kras to the pancreatic Nestin-expressing embryonic progenitor cells and subsequently to the adult acinar compartment and Nestin... Read More

Source: PubMed

Cancer    

Researchers report discoveries in cancer progression and rare skin and pancreatic cancers.

Printz C

... Read More

Source: PubMed

Cytojournal    

Cytological analysis of small branch-duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms provides a more accurate risk assessment of malignancy than symptoms.

Ono J, Yaeger KA, Genevay M, Mino-Kenudson M, Brugge WR, Pitman MB

Department of Pathology, Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.

The Sendai guidelines for management of patients with clinically suspected intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMN) recommend resection of cyst... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Dec 6  

Risk of cancer in patients exposed to gabapentin in two electronic medical record systems.

Irizarry MC, Webb DJ, Boudiaf N, Logie J, Habel LA, Udaltsova N, Friedman GD

WW Epidemiology, GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. michael.c.irizarry@gsk.com.

PURPOSE: High doses of gabapentin were associated with pancreatic acinar cell tumors in male Wistar rats, but there is little published epidemiologica... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Dec 6  

Surveillance of Pancreatic Cancer Patients after Surgical Resection.

Sheffield KM, Crowell KT, Lin YL, Djukom C, Goodwin JS, Riall TS

Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA, kmsheffi@utmb.edu.

BACKGROUND: There are no clear recommendations to guide posttreatment surveillance in patients with pancreatic cancer. Our goal ... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Dec 6  

Expression of FHL1 in gastric cancer tissue and its correlation with the invasion and metastasis of gastric cancer.

Xu Y, Liu Z, Guo K

Department of Pancreatic Gastroenterologic Surgery, First Hospital of China Medical University, No. 92, Nanjing Rd, Shenyang, 110001, China, xuyhsy@yeah.net.

This study was performed to analyze the expression of four and a half LIM domains 1 (FHL1) in gastric carcinoma tissue and its correlation with the cl... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Dec 5  

A genome-wide association study of overall survival in pancreatic cancer patients treated with gemcitabine in CALGB 80303.

Innocenti F, Owzar K, Cox NJ, Evans P, Kubo M, Zembutsu H, Jiang C, Hollis D, Mushiroda T, Li L, Friedman P, Wang L, Glubb DM, Hurwitz HI, Giacomini KM, McLeod HL, Goldberg RM, Schlisky R, Kindler HL, Nakamura Y, Ratain MJ

Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Background and Aims. CALGB 80303 was a randomized, phase III study in advanced pancreatic cancer patients treated with gemcitabine plus either bevaciz... Read More

Source: PubMed

    

Meta-analysis of 8q24 for seven cancers reveals a locus between NOV and ENPP2 associated with cancer development.

Brisbin AG, Asmann YW, Song H, Tsai YY, Aakre JA, Yang P, Jenkins RB, Pharoah P, Schumacher F, Conti DV, Duggan DJ, Jenkins M, Hopper J, Gallinger S, Newcomb P, Casey G, Sellers TA, Fridley BL

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Human chromosomal region 8q24 contains several genes which could be functionally related to cancer, including the proto-oncogen... Read More

Source: PubMed

Cytojournal    

Cytological analysis of small branch-duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms provides a more accurate risk assessment of malignancy than symptoms.

Ono J, Yaeger KA, Genevay M, Mino-Kenudson M, Brugge WR, Pitman MB

Department of Pathology, Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.

The Sendai guidelines for management of patients with clinically suspected intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMN) recommend resection of cyst... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Dec 6  

Risk of cancer in patients exposed to gabapentin in two electronic medical record systems.

Irizarry MC, Webb DJ, Boudiaf N, Logie J, Habel LA, Udaltsova N, Friedman GD

WW Epidemiology, GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. michael.c.irizarry@gsk.com.

PURPOSE: High doses of gabapentin were associated with pancreatic acinar cell tumors in male Wistar rats, but there is little published epidemiologica... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Dec 6  

Surveillance of Pancreatic Cancer Patients after Surgical Resection.

Sheffield KM, Crowell KT, Lin YL, Djukom C, Goodwin JS, Riall TS

Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA, kmsheffi@utmb.edu.

BACKGROUND: There are no clear recommendations to guide posttreatment surveillance in patients with pancreatic cancer. Our goal ... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Dec 6  

Expression of FHL1 in gastric cancer tissue and its correlation with the invasion and metastasis of gastric cancer.

Xu Y, Liu Z, Guo K

Department of Pancreatic Gastroenterologic Surgery, First Hospital of China Medical University, No. 92, Nanjing Rd, Shenyang, 110001, China, xuyhsy@yeah.net.

This study was performed to analyze the expression of four and a half LIM domains 1 (FHL1) in gastric carcinoma tissue and its correlation with the cl... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Dec 5  

A genome-wide association study of overall survival in pancreatic cancer patients treated with gemcitabine in CALGB 80303.

Innocenti F, Owzar K, Cox NJ, Evans P, Kubo M, Zembutsu H, Jiang C, Hollis D, Mushiroda T, Li L, Friedman P, Wang L, Glubb DM, Hurwitz HI, Giacomini KM, McLeod HL, Goldberg RM, Schlisky R, Kindler HL, Nakamura Y, Ratain MJ

Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Background and Aims. CALGB 80303 was a randomized, phase III study in advanced pancreatic cancer patients treated with gemcitabine plus either bevaciz... Read More

Source: PubMed

    

Meta-analysis of 8q24 for seven cancers reveals a locus between NOV and ENPP2 associated with cancer development.

Brisbin AG, Asmann YW, Song H, Tsai YY, Aakre JA, Yang P, Jenkins RB, Pharoah P, Schumacher F, Conti DV, Duggan DJ, Jenkins M, Hopper J, Gallinger S, Newcomb P, Casey G, Sellers TA, Fridley BL

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Human chromosomal region 8q24 contains several genes which could be functionally related to cancer, including the proto-oncogen... Read More

Source: PubMed

JRSM Short Rep    

Juxtapapillary duodenal diverticulum masquerading as a cystic pancreatic neoplasm.

Mallappa S, Jiao LR

Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Department of HPB Surgery, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College , London W12 0NN , UK.

... Read More

Source: PubMed

PLoS ONE    

Inhibition of hedgehog signaling antagonizes serous ovarian cancer growth in a primary xenograft model.

McCann CK, Growdon WB, Kulkarni-Datar K, Curley MD, Friel AM, Proctor JL, Sheikh H, Deyneko I, Ferguson JA, Vathipadiekal V, Birrer MJ, Borger DR, Mohapatra G, Zukerberg LR, Foster R, Macdougall JR, Rueda BR

Department of Vincent Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Recent evidence links aberrant activation of Hedgehog (Hh) signaling with the pathogenesis of several cancers including medulloblastoma, basal cell, s... Read More

Source: PubMed

PLoS ONE    

Acute pancreatitis accelerates initiation and progression to pancreatic cancer in mice expressing oncogenic kras in the nestin cell lineage.

Carričre C, Young AL, Gunn JR, Longnecker DS, Korc M

Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America.

Targeting of oncogenic Kras to the pancreatic Nestin-expressing embryonic progenitor cells and subsequently to the adult acinar compartment and Nestin... Read More

Source: PubMed

Cancer    

Researchers report discoveries in cancer progression and rare skin and pancreatic cancers.

Printz C

... Read More

Source: PubMed


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Posted by:  guest  Posted on: 04/15/2007
my father 72yrs age 10yrs before he had one mass in left throat after we make operation and after biopsy there was a cancer infection after that we give him 1 month radiation and six chemo.now on right side there is another small grow in throatt and abdomen usg report shows CBD dilated 12mm and head of pancreas one mass exist.now his bilirumin is 10.2mg and not able to eat and itching full body.some fever(101 F)is there with out any surgery how i can keep him quite normal he also diabetic(avg pp220)please give some medicine name that can help him to reduce jundis his eyes is yellow and urin also very yelloish.please help me i am a poor family not afford any surgery and i wish only how much day he lives he should live without pain with any medicine.thanks




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