Tom's Cure to raise funds for pancreatic cancer research with annual walk
Norwalk Citizen
Photo: Contributed Photo / CT In memory of Norwalk resident Tom Arthur, Tom's Cure will host its first annual walk at Calf Pasture Beach in Norwalk to raise funds for pancreatic cancer research on Sunday. It would have been Arthur's 63rd birthday.

USA TODAY
Cancer test scores $75000 science prize for teen
USA TODAY
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY A simple blood or urine test for pancreatic cancer, 90% accurate, has garnered a Maryland teen an international science prize. The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, a competition among students from 70 nations, ...
Fifteen-Year-Old Creates Non-Invasive Pancreatic Cancer Detection ToolMarketWatch (press release)
Awards honor teens in science competitionThe Seattle Times
Top winners named at Intel science fairPittsburgh Post Gazette
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Realities of cancer all too real to this family
Morden Times
Dale Brown is a man who is very familiar with the impact of cancer on a family. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2002, and having lost a sister to liver cancer and another to pancreatic cancer, he half expected to have cancer too.

ABC News
Jai Pausch On Dreaming New Dreams
Huffington Post
So writes Jai Pausch at the end of her new book Dream New Dreams: Reimagining My Life After Loss, summing up the wisdom accrued on her journey literally rebuilding new dreams after her husband, Randy Pausch, succumbed to pancreatic cancer at 47.
Lessons After the Last Lecture From Jai PauschABC News

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Daily Mail
Google goes cancer: Search engine algorithm finds cancer biomarkers
Science Daily (press release)
Researchers from Dresden University of Technology, Germany, have used a modified version of Google's PageRank algorithm to rank about 20000 proteins by their genetic relevance to the progression of pancreatic cancer. In their study, published in PLoS ...
Googling for Cancer BiomarkersdailyRx
'Google Algorithm Finds Cancer Biomarkers'Medical News Today
Cancer? Google itSmartPlanet.com (blog)
Genetic Engineering News -Insidermedicine -Daily Mail
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Candye Kane's Cancer Surgery Successful, but...
San Diego Reader (blog)
Local superhero Candye Kane has checked in with a report about her recent cancer surgery. "The good news: I had no positive lymph nodes this time. The surgery was successful in that my pancreatic duct is unclogged. The bad: I will likely need radiation ...

New York Daily News
New York judge with cancer makes case for marijuana
Reuters
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach, who is being treated for pancreatic cancer, wrote in a New York Times article on Thursday that he had been using marijuana provided by friends at "great personal risk" to help him cope with the nausea, ...
Cannabis Science Supports Judge Gustin L. Reichbach's 'Plea for Pot' in New ...MarketWatch (press release)
Judge Gustin Reichbach of Brooklyn admits he smokes marijuana to ease ...New York Daily News
How a cancer-stricken judge became America's newest drug-reform warriorNational Post

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Journalist Rick Desloge Dead from Pancreatic Cancer
Patch.com
KMOX Radio just reported that Rick Desloge, age 63, lifetime journalist had died of pancreatic cancer. I am in a state of mourning. Fellow Patch editor Dan Barger, Fenton-High Ridge tipped me last week that Rick was really in bad shape, and was moved ...
Condolences to the family of journalist Rick DeslogeSTLtoday.com
Rick Desloge, 1948-2012St. Louis Business Journal

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WND.com
'Dean of Christian talk radio' succumbs to cancer
WND.com
Beloved Los Angeles-area personality Rich Buhler, host of “Talk from the Heart” on KBRT AM in Costa Mesa, Calif., died May 7 after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly two years. Veteran Christian broadcaster Warren Duffy, who served as a fill-in host ...

Relay remembers young cancer victim
KPCnews.com
The reason I relay is so we can find a cure for cancer. Especially cancer in kids! It's bad enough in adults, but watching my little 7-year-old cousin fight pancreatic cancer was horrible. Christopher, my cousin, fought as hard as his little, ...

The Atlantic Wire
A Judge's Plea for Pot
New York Times
THREE and a half years ago, on my 62nd birthday, doctors discovered a mass on my pancreas. It turned out to be Stage 3 pancreatic cancer. I was told I would be dead in four to six months. Today I am in that rare coterie of people who have survived this ...
The marijuana debate, a judge's plea and readers' thoughtsCNN (blog)
NY Judge: Only Marijuana Truly Works for My Cancer Treatment13WHAM-TV
Five Best Thursday ColumnsThe Atlantic Wire
Arkansas Times (blog) -HIGH TIMES
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Jones brought up to coach in Padres bullpen
U-T San Diego
Bullpen coach Darrel Akerfelds is battling pancreatic cancer. Photo Sean M. Haffey/UT San Diego With the hospitalization of Darrel Akerfelds in his fight against pancreatic cancer, Jimmy Jones has been elevated from the staff in Double-A San Antonio to ...
Jones filling in for ill AkerfeldsPadres.com
PADRES NOTES: Bullpen coach Akerfelds takes leave to deal with worsening ...North County Times

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KVAL
'It's hard for me not to pick up a little rock and put it in my mouth'
KVAL
"I'm being treated for pancreatic cancer." "It'll be okay," she said, nodding slightly as she wiped away a tear. I asked Spinuzza if she thinks the cancer is tied to her eating of dirt. She said her form of pancreatic cancer is so rare, ...

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Circulating tumour cells escape from EpCAM-based detection due to epithelial ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Circulating tumour cells (CTCs) have shown prognostic relevance in metastatic breast, prostate, colon and pancreatic cancer. For further development of CTCs as a biomarker, we compared the performance of different protocols for CTC detection in murine ...

Orphan Diseases Therapeutics in Oncology to 2018
SBWire (press release)
The report provides an in-depth analysis of pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer, multiple myeloma, acute myeloid leukemia as well as Hodgkin lymphoma in the last seven years as well as throughout the forecast period until 2018.

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Early Biomarker Identified
Biomed Middle East
By jamal, on May 16th, 2012 Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, or PDAC, is the fourth-leading cause of cancer-related death. Newly diagnosed patients have a median survival of less than one year, and a 5-year survival rate of only 3 to 5 per cent.

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CBS Local
Journalist Rick Desloge Dead from Pancreatic Cancer
Patch.com
KMOX Radio just reported that Rick Desloge, age 63, lifetime journalist had died of pancreatic cancer. I am in a state of mourning. Fellow Patch editor Dan Barger, Fenton-High Ridge tipped me last week that Rick was really in bad shape, and was moved ...
Condolences to the family of journalist Rick DeslogeSTLtoday.com
Rick Desloge Dies, Provided Business Reports For KMOXAll Access Music Group
Rick Desloge, 1948-2012St. Louis Business Journal
Belleville News Democrat -CBS Local
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ABC News
Lessons After the Last Lecture From Jai Pausch
ABC News
Jai wrote a novel about caring for her late husband, the famed Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch, who died in 2008 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Jai's book, "Dream New Dreams: Reimagining My Life After Loss," provides an intimate portrait ...
For Jai Pausch, 'New Dreams' in wake of griefUSA TODAY

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Genetic Testing in Gastrointestinal Cancers: A Case-Based Approach
Cancer Network
In this article, we use a case-based approach to focus on the hereditary aspects of the most common GI cancers, including pancreatic, gastric, and colon cancer. Indicators that identify individuals who may harbor germline mutations predisposing them to ...

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Early Biomarker Identified for Pancreatic Cancer
ABC News
Scientists at the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine have identified a new biomarker for pancreatic cancer. The finding helps researchers move one step forward in creating therapeutic treatments for the potentially deadly disease.
Early biomarker for pancreatic cancer identifiedMedical Xpress

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