There's no routine screening test for pancreatic cancer, and symptoms can be mistaken for common illnesses.
There's no routine screening test for pancreatic cancer, and symptoms can be mistaken for common illnesses.
Sanjay Reddy, division chief for surgical oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center and co-director of Fox Chase’s pancreatic cancer institute, spoke with The Inquirer about the latest in pancreatic cancer treatment and research. The interview has been edited lightly for length and clarity.There’s really no screening test that we have available for pancreatic cancer for the general population.
You have to be really attentive to your body and seek out preventive medicine. Go to your primary care, get some labs. One patient had a BRCA mutation and we knew that she was sensitive to platinum drugs. So before we did any sort of surgical intervention, she underwent chemotherapy with a three-drug regiment with platinum. She had a marvelous response. When we took out her tumor, we calculated how much dead tumor there is versus live tumor, and there was like 100% tumor kill.
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