WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who drink two or more sweetened soft drinks a week have a much higher risk of pancreatic cancer, an unusual but deadly cancer, researchers reported on Monday. People who drank mostly fruit juice instead of sodas did not have the same risk, the study of 60,000 people in Singapore found. Sugar may be to blame but ...

The biopharmaceutical company Immunomedics on Thursday said a new study shows one of its antibodies may identify early stage pancreatic cancer. The company said the blood test using the clivatuzumab antibody was 62 percent sensitive for detecting stage-1 pancreatic cancer, or cancer confined to the pancreas. It was ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people with a strong family history of pancreatic cancer, having a relative who was diagnosed before the age of 50 may further raise the risk of developing the deadly disease, a new study finds. About 3 percent of all cases of pancreatic cancer are what's known as familial pancreatic cancer, where the disease has ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Researchers in Italy said on Wednesday they have developed a test that identifies most people with autoimmune pancreatitis, which could make it easier for doctors to distinguish it from pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest types of cancer. But the method is not perfect. While it gave a correct diagnosis in 94 percent of cases, 5 percent of ...