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Often referred to as a “silent killer,” pancreatic cancer tumors are difficult to detect. Christopher Wolfgang, MD, PhD, a surgical oncologist at �ٺ���Ƶ Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, talks with Eat This, Not That! about research underway to develop new methods to detect pancreatic tumors in the blood as well as ways to determine whether a tumor called a cystic neoplasm—most of which are benign, with a small percentage becoming cancerous—requires surgical removal.

“Research shows that a tumor growing in the pancreas can take 12 to 15 years before it becomes invasive,” says Dr. Wolfgang, also chief of the and a professor in the and at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. “If we can find and remove premalignant tumors within that window, we can potentially cure pancreatic cancer with surgery �����DzԱ�.”

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