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Pancreatic cancer specialist explains challenges of the disease and treatment advances

  • Written by Nathan Bahary, Associate professor of medicine, University of Pittsburgh

With Alex Trebek’s recent announcement that his pancreatic cancer is in remission, many people have wondered if this difficult cancer is now easier to treat. Pancreatic cancer remains a major cancer killer, but advances are happening.

As a medical oncologist who specializes in treating and studying pancreatic cancer, I’ll try to provide...

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