by Ohio State University Medical Center Using tiny cameras, Somashekar Krishna, MD, and his team at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute are able to explore a patient’s pancreas with a “virtual biopsy” that gives them a microscopic view of the cyst wall. They then...
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Research team reveals mechanisms at work in progression of pancreatic cysts to pancreatic cancer
by University of California, San Francisco Pancreatic cancer cells (blue) growing as a sphere encased in membranes (red). Credit: National Cancer Institute Pancreatic cysts have gained substantial attention in recent years because they represent one of the only precursors of pancreatic cancer identifiable through radiologic imaging. Although most of these cysts, also known as pancreatic...