Health and Medical Guide to Digestive System Pancreatic Cancer Health information topics about Pancreatic Cancer: Alternative Therapy 1. Questions and Answers about the Gonzalez Protocol National Cancer Institute http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/developments/qa-gonzalez-trial1299 Anatomy/Physiology 1. What Is the Pancreas? Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Pathology http://pathology2.jhu.edu/pancreas/pancreas1.cfm Clinical Trials 1. ClinicalTrials.gov: Pancreatic Neoplasms National Institutes of Health http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/action/FindCondition?ui=D010190&recruiting... 2. ClinicalTrials.gov: Carcinoma, Islet Cell National Institutes of Health http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/action/FindCondition?ui=D018273&recruiting... Diagnosis/Symptoms 1. CA 19-9 (Cancer Antigen 19-9) American Association for Clinical Chemistry http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/ca19_9/test.html 2. Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ER National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center http://www.cc.nih.gov/ccc/patient_education/procdiag/ercp.pdf 3. How Is Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosed? American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_3x_how_is_pancreatic_canc... 4. How Is Pancreatic Cancer Staged? American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_3x_how_is_pancreatic_canc... 5. Can Pancreatic Cancer Be Found Early? American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_3x_can_pancreatic_cancer_... Dictionaries/Glossaries 1. Cancer.gov Dictionary National Cancer Institute http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary/ Directories 1. National Cancer Institute Cancer Centers Program National Cancer Institute http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/1_2.htm 2. Find a Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Doctor American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy http://www.askasge.org/pages/find/find.cfm Disease Management 1. How Is Pain Managed? Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Pathology http://pathology2.jhu.edu/pancreas/pain.cfm 2. Palliative and Supportive Care American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_4x_palliative_and_support... Genetics 1. What Causes Pancreatic Cancer? Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Pathology http://pathology2.jhu.edu/pancreas/causespc.cfm 2. Is Pancreatic Cancer Hereditary? Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Pathology http://pathology2.jhu.edu/pancreas/hered.cfm 3. Genes and Disease: Pancreatic Cancer National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowSection&rid=gnd... Health Check Tools 1. Pancreatic Cancer Questionnaire Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention http://www.yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu/hccpquiz.pl?func=d_start&cancer_list... National Institutes of Health 1. Pancreatic Cancer (PDQ): Treatment National Cancer Institute http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/pdq/treatment/pancreatic/patient/ 2. What You Need to Know about Cancer of the Pancreas National Cancer Institute http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/wyntk/pancreas Nutrition 1. Pancreas Cancer: Nutrition Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Pathology http://pathology2.jhu.edu/pancreas/nutrition.cfm Organizations 1. Pancreatica Lorenzen Cancer Foundation http://www.pancreatica.org/ 2. National Pancreas Foundation http://www.pancreasfoundation.org/ 3. National Cancer Institute http://www.cancer.gov/ 4. American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/ Overviews 1. Pancreatic Cancer: Frequently Asked Questions National Pancreas Foundation http://www.pancreasfoundation.org/cgi/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=faq.db&com... 2. Pancreatic Cancer Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=DS00357 Related Issues 1. Questions and Answers about Cigar Smoking and Canc National Cancer Institute http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/10_16.htm 2. What Questions Should I Ask My Doctor? Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Pathology http://pathology2.jhu.edu/pancreas/questions.cfm 3. Ten Questions to Ask Your GI Endoscopist American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy http://www.askasge.org/pages/tenquest.cfm Research 1. Obesity Linked to Pancreatic Cancer American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Obesity_Linked_to_Pancre... 2. Detecting Pancreatic Cancer and Its Spread American College of Physicians http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/141/10/I-46 3. What's New in Pancreatic Cancer Research and American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_6x_whats_new_in_pancreati... 4. No Aspirin Link to Pancreatic Cancer American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Study_No_Aspirin_Link_to... Specific Conditions 1. Where Can Pancreatic Cancer Spread? Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Pathology http://pathology2.jhu.edu/pancreas/mets.cfm 2. Islet Cell Carcinoma (Endocrine Pancreas) (PDQ): T National Cancer Institute http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/pdq/treatment/isletcell/patient/ 3. Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/zollinger/index.htm Statistics 1. What Are the Key Statistics about Pancreatic Cance American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_1x_what_are_the_key_stati... Treatment 1. Pancreatic Cancer: What Happens after Treatment? American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_5x_what_happens_after_tre... 2. Surgery American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_4x_surgery_34.asp?siteare... 3. Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer by Stage American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_4x_treatment_of_pancreati... 4. 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