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Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month - November 2020

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The pancreas is a gland that produces digestive juices and hormones. Pancreatic cancer is when abnormal cells in the pancreas start to divide and grow in an uncontrolled way and forms a growth/tumour.

If left untreated, the cells can grow into surrounding blood vessels or organs such as the small bowel. These cancer cells may even spread to other parts of the body.

Around 10,300 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the UK each year. It is the 10th most common cancer in the UK. Pancreatic cancer is more common in older people. More than 45 out of 100 people diagnosed (more than 45%) are aged 75 and over. Pancreatic cancer is uncommon in people under 40 years old.

In the past 10 years, pancreatic cancer rates have increased. In England, pancreatic cancer is more common in people living in poorer areas. It is more common in White and Black people than in Asian people.

Pancreatic Cancer month isn’t just for one country. It brings together all the pancreatic cancer charities and groups around the globe to become a unified, dedicated and hardworking international team; fighting for those who are suffering from the disease.

For more information surrounding pancreatic cancer, please visit Pancreatic Cancer UK Charity, Cancer Research UK and NHS Choices websites:

https://www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/pancreatic-cancer

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pancreatic-cancer/

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES

For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of and supporting those who are going through or have been through pancreatic cancer, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.

BOOKS:

JOURNALS:

  • Journal of pancreatic cancer / New Rochelle, NY : Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2017 onwards, & NHS e-journal 2015 onwards].
  • Case reports in pancreatic cancer / [New Rochelle, NY : Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.] [Available as a Keele ejournal 2015 - 2016].
  • Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Diseases International / Qingchunru, Hangzhou, China : First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2011 onwards].
  • Annals of Hepato - Biliary - Pancreatic Surgery / Europe PMC. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2016 onwards].
  • JOP : Journal of the Pancreas / Wilmington, Delaware : iMed Pub. [Available as a NHS ejournal 2007 - 2014].
  • Endocrine Related Cancer / [Woodlands, Almondsbury, Bristol, UK : BioScientifica Ltd.] [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 1998 onwards with 1 year embargo].
  • Pancreatology / Basel ; New York : Karger Publishers. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2001 onwards].

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

  • YunFeng Cui and Dana K Andersen, “Diabetes and pancreatic cancer”, Endocrine-Related Cancer, 2012 Vol 19 (5) pp: F9–F26. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Bockhorn, Maximilian ; Uzunoglu, Faik G ; Adham, Mustapha et al, “Borderline resectable pancreatic cancer: A consensus statement by the International Study Group of Pancreatic Surgery (ISGPS)”, Surgery (Official Journal of the Society of University Surgeons, Central Surgical Association, and the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons), 2014 vol 155 (6) pp 977-988. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Kim R, Mahipal A, Choi M, Saif MW, “Biomarkers for pancreatic cancer: is it ready for primetime?”, JOP : Journal of the pancreas, 2013 Jul 10; Vol. 14 (4), pp. 309-11. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Vito Sansone, Marco Le Grazie, Jenny Roselli, “Telomerase reactivation is associated with hepatobiliary and pancreatic cancers”, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Diseases International, 2020, Volume 19, (5) pp. 420-428. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Sahai Vaibhav; Wasif, Saif M et al, “A Phase I/II Open-Label Multicenter Single-Arm Study of FABLOx (Metronomic 5-Fluorouracil Plus nab-Paclitaxel, Bevacizumab, Leucovorin, and Oxaliplatin) in Patients with Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer”, Journal of Pancreatic Cancer, 2019 Vol. 5 (1) pp.35-42. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Wolfgang, Christopher L ; Herman, Joseph M, “Recent progress in pancreatic cancer”, CA: a cancer journal for clinicians, 2013, Vol.63 (5), p.318-348 [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Damm  Marko; Weniger  Maximilian; Kölsch  Anna-Katharina et al., “The quality of pain management in pancreatic cancer: A prospective multi-center study”, Pancreatology, 2020, Vol.20, (7), pp.1511-1518. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Goggins, M.; Overbeek, K.A.; Brand, R. et al., “Management of patients with increased risk for familial pancreatic cancer: updated recommendations from the International Cancer of the Pancreas Screening (CAPS) Consortium”, Gut. 2020, January, Vol. 69 (1) pp.7-17. [Erratum in: Gut. 2020 June; Vol. 69 (6): e3]. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]

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