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Article: THE POST INVESTIGATES THE PANCREAS.(Saturday Evening Post)
- Article from:
- Medical Update
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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Editor's Note: The following are excerpts of the first of a continuing series on disorders of the pancreas. The series will emphasize the search for genetic markers as a means of preventing and treating the devastating cancer of this hard-to-reach organ. The first full article appears in the September/ October 2001 SatEvePost.
Future issues of Medical Update will feature excerpts of Post interviews with leading researchers and specialists, along with an investigation of the late-breaking results of ImClone's IMC-C225 and its ability to arrest growth in advanced pancreatic cancers.
Forty years ago, medical students were told that "if the cancer is in the ...