Current Pancreatic Cancer Research at the BC Cancer Agency By Dr. Daniel Renouf on Nov 15, 2012 Hello everyone, In this week’s post I’d like to tell you about some of the areas of research we’re working on to improve our ability to diagnose and treat pancreatic cancer. As many of you are aware, pancreatic cancer is a common and very aggressive cancer, and there are several reasons why we have a difficult time treating it: one issue is that pancreatic cancer often doesn’t cause... Continue Reading Chemotherapy, Genomics, Pancreatic Cancer
About Clinical Trials By Dr. Devin Schel... on Dec 20, 2010 I wanted to start by speaking a bit about the Clinical Trials Unit at the Abbotsford Centre. “Clinical trials” is a term that encompasses a lot of different research questions and goals. The National Institute of Health (NIH) has a definition (here it is), but for ease, I think of... Continue Reading Chemotherapy, Radiation Oncology