Amplia Therapeutics is making strides with its candidate that works on the anti-fibrotic path to tackling pancreatic cancer.

The stent had migrated into the liver and essentially turned into a stone,” explained Dr Dipak Bhangale, consultant ...

SAN DIEGO -- For endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided transluminal draining of pancreatic pseudocysts ... the LAMS procedures were faster: total procedure time averaged 22 minutes versus 48 with the ...

SAN DIEGO -- For endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided transluminal draining of pancreatic ... total procedure time averaged 22 minutes versus 48 with the plastic stents (P=0.01).

For this procedure, the surgeon makes a few small incisions ... during a percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC). (See Tests for Pancreatic Cancer.) The biliary stent helps keep the bile duct ...

Department of Oncology, Tengzhou Central People’s Hospital, Tengzhou City, Shandong Province, China Department of Pharmacy, Tengzhou Central People’s Hospital, Tengzhou City, Shandong Province, China ...

He said he'd been through 2 operations:: the first to put a stent in the bile duct, and the second, called a Whipple procedure, to remove the cancer itself. Pancreatic cancer survival rates have ...

If you can't have surgery to remove pancreatic cancer, you may still have an ... This means that bile can flow again into the bowel. Having a stent put in is generally a simple procedure. You usually ...

Background Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) with fully covered self-expandable metal stent (FCSEMS) placement is the preferred ... and approval by the study team and Dutch ...

A stent is a short, narrow tube that keeps the duct open. Another option is pancreatic biliary bypass surgery. In this procedure, a doctor cuts the bile duct above the blockage and reattaches it ...