The results of the study showed that patients with
pancreatic cancer had islet sizes that were about a third smaller than those in the patients with T2DM and the healthy controls (P = .005).
The model, called an ENDPAC score, identifies a subset of patients with new-onset diabetes that have a thirty to forty-fold higher risk of having
pancreatic cancer and among them, the risk of having the disease is between four and seven percent, Chari said.
The scientists found 16.4 per cent of people diagnosed with
pancreatic cancer have diabetes that was diagnosed within the last three years.
I thought if I could partner my business skills and experience with my passion for helping to change the
pancreatic cancer story and working with other like-minded people, it could really work.
Pancreatic cancer is characterized by remarkable desmoplasia [52, 53].
"With this in mind, and the fact the Andy's partner Tracy is a member of the Clan family, selecting
Pancreatic Cancer Scotland as one of our charity partners during the 2019/20 season was a very easy decision."
Professor Lowery will analyse pancreatic tumours to identify mutations in both the coding and non-coding 'regulatory' regions of genes involved in repairing DNA within the cell, and study how these mutations effect how a
pancreatic cancer cell grows and how it responds to treatment with drugs in the laboratory.
Radiation and the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine, which are the standard treatment for
pancreatic cancer, both work by causing damage to DNA.
The five-year survival rate for people with
pancreatic cancer is only nine percent because the disease is so difficult to diagnose and is often not found until later stages when the cancer has spread from the pancreas to other parts of the body, the research suggests.