Certain tumor markers may provide information about pancreatic cancer. Cancer antigen 19-9 (CA 19-9) is a type of tumor marker. Antigens are substances that cause the immune system to respond.

Pancreatic cancer cases in young adults have soared in recent years but, to the confusion of scientists, deaths from the ...

"The increasing incidence of pancreatic cancer in younger Americans is primarily due to increased detection of smaller, early-stage endocrine cancer -- not an increase in pancreatic adenocarcinoma," ...

Pancreatic cancer is rare but life-threatening At the same time it can be asymptomatic in the early stages making it difficult to detect and treat on time Here’s what a doctor wants you to know ...

or bits of genes that can be linked to a certain cancer] and figuring out ways to detect pancreatic cancer earlier. We have a ...

With more pancreatic cancers in young people ... Folasade May, a gastroenterologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved with the study. “People might end up ...

Cancer researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia see promise in personalized medicine to help crack the code on ...

The increase in incidence of pancreatic cancer among young Americans is largely due to improved detection of early-stage endocrine cancer, not an increase in pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Given the ...

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We have a very old blood test that we’ve been using forever, CA 19-9, [which measures a protein that, in high amounts, could be a sign of pancreatic cancer]. That alone is not a marker for ...

He was 35. Teal died in North Carolina after being diagnosed in April with Stage 4 neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer, his agent Susan Tolar Walters said in a statement to The Times. “With ...