News and Stories About Keytruda
Keytruda Use Expanded for Pancreatic Cancer Patients
A drug that received unprecedented approval in the U.S. three years ago is now available for even more patients. In […]
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What Is Cancer Immunotherapy?
Cancer immunotherapy involves empowering the patient’s immune system to recognize, attack and destroy cancer cells. While remarkable results have been […]
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Lynch Syndrome and Pancreatic Cancer Risk
About 10 percent of pancreatic cancer cases are thought to be hereditary – caused by an inherited genetic alteration that […]
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Moments Matter: Karen Kiernan
Around Christmas 2016, Karen Kiernan was enjoying the holidays at her family home in Truckee, Calif., when she began to […]
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Cancer Immunotherapy Pioneers Win Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to James (Jim) Allison, PhD, and Tasuku Honjo, MD, […]
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Persistence, Precision Medicine Pay off for Pancreatic Cancer Patient
When doctors told David Watson of Santa Monica, Calif., that he had type 2 diabetes in November 2016, he couldn’t […]
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New Research Suggests Age May Benefit Response to Immunotherapy
Cancer immunotherapy involves efforts to harness the patient’s own immune system to recognize and attack tumor cells. To date, the […]
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Clinical Guidelines for Metastatic Disease Updated
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has updated their treatment guidelines for patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer, or disease […]
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More than 20,000 Cancer Researchers Converge at International Meeting
The theme for this year’s American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting, which took place earlier this week in […]
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2017 Year in Review: Top 10 News Stories
Editor’s note: This article is another installment in our “Year in Review” series recapping the year’s top stories in pancreatic […]
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Keytruda Drug Is Science Breakthrough of the Year Runner-up
At the end of every year, Science magazine announces a Breakthrough of the Year – a discovery that revolutionized the […]
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2017 Year in Review: Progress in Research, Part 1
Editor’s note: This article is the first in our “Year in Review” series recapping the year’s top stories in pancreatic […]
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Progress Report: ‘Research Continues to Be Our Best Defense Against Cancer’
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) released its annual Cancer Progress Report earlier this week. “Research continues to be […]
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5 Things to Know About New Drug Keytruda
Editor’s note: Keytruda was the first cancer drug approved to treat any solid tumor – anywhere in the body – […]
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The Road to Effective Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer Patients
Last week, we shared the exciting news that an immunotherapy agent, Keytruda, was the first drug approved by the FDA […]
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Unprecedented Drug Approval Can Benefit Pancreatic Cancer Patients
For the first time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a cancer drug based only on molecular […]
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