New test may improve diagnosis, treatment of pancreactic cancers

Collecting blood samples from the portal vein can provide much more information about pancreatic cancer than taking blood from vein in the arm. Researchers found circulating tumors cells in 100 percent of 18 patients with suspected tumors in the pancreas and bile ducts. Standard samples detected tumors cells in only four patients.

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