Pancreatic Cancer

 Facts about pancreatic cancer:

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More than 43,000 Americans were expected to be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2010, and over 36,800 were expected to die from the disease. The incidence among African-Americans is 40 to 50 percent higher than other ethnic groups.
Pancreatic cancer is one of the few cancers for which survival has not improved substantially over the past 40 years. As a result, in 2003, pancreatic cancer surpassed prostate cancer as the 4th leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States.
Seventy-five percent of pancreatic cancer patients die within the first 12 months of the diagnosis. The 5-year survival rate is only 6 percent.
Scientific understanding of pancreatic cancer lags far behind that of most other forms of cancer. In fact, pancreatic cancer is the only one of the top 10 cancer killers in the U.S. that still has a 5-year survival rate in the single digits.
In 2001, the National Cancer Institute developed ‘Pancreatic Cancer: An Agenda for Action’. As of 2010, only 5 of the report’s 39 recommendations have been implemented because of a lack of funding, focus, and commitment.
Pancreatic cancer research funding constitutes 2 percent of the National Cancer Institute’s Federal research funding, a figure far too low given the severity of the disease, its mortality rate, and how little is known about how to arrest the disease.
Of the more than 6,200 research grants awarded in 2009 by the National Cancer Institute, only 272 (approximately 4 percent) were categorized by the Institute as at least 50 percent relevant to pancreatic cancer research.

Dr. Moser Performs Boston Area’s First Robot-Assisted Pancreatectomy

Posted by on Dec 3, 2012 in Cancer Research, Featured Article, Featured Video | 3 comments

Dr. Moser Performs Boston Area’s First Robot-Assisted Pancreatectomy

Dr. A James Moser and Dr. Mark Callery recently performed a robot-assisted pancreatectomy at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The state-of-the-art surgery was the first in the Boston area. (more…)

How Technology Is Helping Pancreatic Cancer Surgery

Posted by on Oct 6, 2011 in Cancer Research | 0 comments

How Technology Is Helping Pancreatic Cancer Surgery

Courtesy of UPMC, Dr. A. James Moser discusses the benefits of robotic surgery for pancreatic cancer patients. Learn more about the program at the UPMC Pancreatic Cancer Center website.

Check out the article: Innovation at UPMC: New Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Patients.

Also the accompanying video, Robotic Whipple Surgery, and the UPMC’s original video posting is here.

Dr. Moser Headed to Harvard Medical School

Posted by on Aug 5, 2011 in Cancer Research, Featured Article, Foundation News | 0 comments

Dr. Moser Headed to Harvard Medical School

The foundation is incredibly excited to announce that Dr. A. James Moser is headed to Harvard University, where he plans to lead a group of top pancreatic cancer experts whose focus will be to cure pancreatic cancer once and for all!

Cathy Griffith made the following post on her CarePages account yesterday: (more…)

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