Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month - November 2025

 November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month and this November the charity Pancreatic Cancer Action has launched their #DeadlyKiller campaign.  According to the charity, only 10-20% of patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer are diagnosed in time to receive potentially life-saving treatment.  As such, they aim to raise awareness of the symptoms to assist with early diagnosis.

 

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES  

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.

 

BOOKS

• Challenges in pancreatic cancer; Vladimirov, Borislav; Kovacheva-Slavova, Mila; 2021 (InTech Open) – [available as an Open Access e-book]

• Pancreatic Cancer: Methods and Protocols; Su, Gloria H; 2019; (Springer); 3^rd edition – [available as a Keele e-book]

• Molecular Mechanisms and Therapies of Pancreatic Cancer; Cave, Donatella Delle; 2024 (MDPI) – [available as an Open Access e-book]

• Pancreas; Shrikhande, Shailesh V; Büchler, Markus, 2022; (Oxford University Press); 1^st edition – [available as an e-book for Keele and NHS]

• Challenges in Pancreatic Pathology; Seicean, Andrada; 2017; (InTechOpen) – [available as an Open Access e-book]

• Hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery; Rowan W. Parks; Stephen J. Wigmore; Parks, Rowan W; Wigmore, Stephen J; 2024; (Elsevier); 7^th edition .

• The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations. Volume 9, Digestive System. Part III, Liver, Biliary Tract, and Pancreas; Netter, Frank H; Reynolds, James C; Ward, Peter J; et a; 2024; (Elsevier); 3^rd Edition – [available as a Keele e-book, & UHNM e-book via Clinical Key]

• Present and Future of Personalised Medicine for Endocrine Cancers; Ronchi, Cristina L; Ronchi, Cristina L; Altieri, Barbara; 2022 – [available as an Open Access e-book]

• Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Cancers; Fazio, Nicola; Amoroso, Vito; Berruti, Alfredo; 2023 (MDPI) – [available as an Open Access e-book]

 

JOURNALS

• Journal of pancreatic cancer, (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2017-2022

• Endocrine oncology (Bristol, England); Society for Endocrinology, sponsoring body; (Bioscientifica Ltd) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2021 onwards

• International journal of endocrine oncology; (Future Medicine) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2014 onwards

• Cancer and metabolism; (BioMed Central) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2013 onwards

• Hormones and cancer; Li, Jonathan J; Endocrine Society, issuing body; (Springer) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2010 onwards

• Journal of pancreatology; Xie he yi yuan (Beijing, China); Zhongguo ke xue ji shu xie hui.; (Wolters Kluwer Health) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2018 onwards

N.B. NHS members can obtain temporary Keele IT logins to view Keele e-journals from the Keele IT suite in the Health Library at Royal Stoke.

NHS ejournals will require login with an NHS Open Athens account.

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

OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL ARTICLES

• “Exploiting pancreatic cancer metabolism: challenges and opportunities”; De Santis, Maria Chiara; Bockorny, Bruno; Hirsch, Emilio; Cappello, Paola; Martini, Miriam; Trends in molecular medicine, 2024-06, Vol.30 (6), p.592-604; DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2024.03.008

• “Overcoming therapy resistance in pancreatic cancer: New insights and future directions”; Espona-Fiedler, Margarita; Patthey, Cedric; et al; Biochemical pharmacology, 2024-11, Vol.229, p.116492, Article 116492; DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2024.116492

• “Living With Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: Patients' Experiences of Daily Life”; Bergqvist, Jenny; Nordberg, Johanna Hök; Wode, Kathrin; et al; Psycho-Oncology, 2025-09, Vol.34 (9), p.e70260-n/a; DOI: 10.1002/pon.70260

• “High prevalence of pancreatic steatosis in pancreatic cancer patients: A meta-analysis and systematic review”; Vlăduț, Cătălina; Steiner, Corinna; Löhr, Matthias; et al; Pancreatology: official journal of the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP), 2025-02, Vol.25 (1), p.98-107; DOI: 10.1016/j.pan.2024.11.010

• “Diagnostic and Prognostic Accuracy of MiRNAs in Pancreatic Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis”; Hasani, Fatemeh; Masrour, Mahdi; Khamaki, Sina; et al; Journal of cellular and molecular medicine, 2025-01, Vol.29 (2), p.e70337; DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.70337

• “Can our experience with surveillance for inherited pancreatic cancer help to identify early pancreatic cancer in the general population?”; Löhr, J.-Matthias; Öhlund, Daniel; Söreskog, Emma; et al; Familial cancer, 2024-08, Vol.23 (3), p.399-403; DOI: 10.1007/s10689-024-00363-6

• “Prediagnostic blood biomarkers for pancreatic cancer: meta-analysis”; Bengtsson, Axel; Draus, Tomasz; Andersson, Roland; Ansari, Daniel; BJS open, 2024-06, Vol.8 (3), p.1; DOI: 10.1093/bjsopen/zrae046; DOI: 10.1093/bjsopen/zrae046

• “The hidden impact: social isolation and inflammation’s role in pancreatic cancer risk among those with diabetes”; Ding, Lilu; Qian, Jing; Dai, Ruoqi; et al; BMC cancer, 2025-01, Vol.25 (1), p.58-13, Article 58; DOI: 10.1186/s12885-025-13470-z

• “Diagnostic delay at diagnosis and time-to-treatment influence overall survival of pancreatic cancer patients”; Ponz de Leon Pisani, R; Archibugi, L; Lazzano, P et al; Digestive and Liver Disease, 2025, Vol. 57 (6), pp. 1308-1314. doi:10.1016/j.dld.2025.03.009

 

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:  

• NHS website:
• Pancreatic Cancer - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pancreatic-cancer/

• Charities / Further information:
• Pancreatic Cancer UK - https://www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/
• Pancreatic Cancer Action - https://pancreaticcanceraction.org/

• Clinical Key Patient Information Leaflets [Only available to NHS staff with Open Athens login]:
• Pancreatic Cancer - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_9cb92966-1df1-47b7-abec-9ba503d99a1e

 

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