The Whipple procedure is most often used to treat pancreatic cancer. Surgeons may also use this procedure to treat some benign pancreatic tumors, especially if the tumor is causing symptoms or is at ...

Life after pancreas removal surgery, also known as a pancreatectomy, brings significant changes to how your body functions. The pancreas plays a vital role in controlling blood sugar and producing ...

Severe chronic pancreatitis is treated by removing the pancreas, but without a pancreas, patients also lose insulin-producing cells called islets. To preserve insulin responses, surgeons transplant ...

Northwestern University researchers have developed a new antioxidant biomaterial that someday could provide much-needed relief to people living with chronic pancreatitis. The paper, "Phase-changing ...

The pancreas is among the most important organs in your body, making substances that control your blood sugar and help your body digest foods. While surgery to remove the whole pancreas is rarely done ...

Should patients with operable pancreatic cancer go straight to surgery or receive systemic therapy first? While surgical resection remains the only potentially curative option for pancreatic ductal ...

Using targeted radiation during surgery - referred to as intraoperative radiation - to eliminate pancreatic cancer cells that have spread to areas around the pancreas, investigators at Johns Hopkins ...

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MUSCAT: A paediatric surgery team from Sultan Qaboos University Hospital at the University Medical City successfully performed a near-total ...