New Test to Quickly Spot Pancreatic Cancer: Study
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NEW YORK: By collecting samples from the portal vein -- which carries blood from the gastrointestinal tract, including from the pancreas, to the liver -- physicians can learn far more about a patients pancreatic cancer than by relying on peripheral blood from a more easily accessed vein in the arm, says a study.
"We demonstrated that this method is potentially quite valuable as well as non-invasive, feasible and safe," said study director professor Irving Waxman from University of Chicago.
"We demonstrated that this method is potentially quite valuable as well as non-invasive, feasible and safe," said study director professor Irving Waxman from University of Chicago.
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