Collagenase solution is injected into the pancreatic duct which runs through the head, body and tail of the pancreas.

Insulin is produced in the Pancreas, what happens if the pancreas is not producing insulin properly? so.. no insulin.

like heart, liver, nerve and pancreas.

Why couldn't we just inject the pancreas with something to regenerate the pancreas early on in the disease, perhaps even before it was symptomatic?

I didn't even know what a pancreas was!

Why are we so bad at detecting pancreatic cancer?

So if a 15 year old who didn't even know what a pancreas was could find a new way to detect pancreatic cancer just imagine what you could do.

Using the Internet, I found a variety of statistics on pancreatic cancer, and what I had found shocked me.

I participated in a small series of whole organ pancreas transplants.

I thought to myself, why not take the individual cells out of the pancreas the cells that secrete insulin to cure diabetes and transplant these cells? technically a much simpler procedure than having to grapple with the complexities of transplanting a whole organ.

And I should mention that I have pancreatic cancer, and I'd like you to please be quick about this.

So now we're gonna work our way down a bit, we talked about the thyroid gland making the thyroid hormones, and when you get to the pancreas, which is that yellow structure right in the middle, inside of the pancreas there are small islands called the islets of Langerhans, and the islets within the pancreas make endocrine hormones, like insulin and glucagon,

Approximately 20 of patients have a relapse of pain during acute pancreatitis.

The most common cause of death in acute pancreatitis is secondary infection.

If insulin resistance exists, more insulin needs to be secreted by the pancreas.

I then shifted my focus to actually detecting that protein, and thus, pancreatic cancer.

In response, the United States FDA and the European Medicines Agency conducted a review of all available data regarding the possible connection between incretin mimetics and pancreatitis or pancreatic cancer.

The location of the pain can indicate the part of the pancreas where a tumor is located.

We have more trials planned for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer and breast cancer.

Lung cancer, laryngeal cancer, oral cancer, esophageal cancer, bladder cancer, pancreatic carcinoma and other cancer like diseases.

S And it seems, just structurally, you have the pancreas right here, you have the adrenal glands right there, they're all kinda near that interchange...because they're all so important...

We have more trials planned for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer and breast cancer.

And this inadequacy of cancer medicine really hit home when my father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

About 20 of the acute pancreatitis are severe with a mortality of about 20 .

Now I don't just mean in the field of daft macho Edwardian style derring do, but also in the fields of pancreatic cancer, there is something addictive about this, and in my case,

In 1988, at the University of Minnesota, I participated in a small series of whole organ pancreas transplants.

I had a scan at 7 30 am and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas

The tail of the pancreas, located anatomically left near the hilum of the spleen, is not simply an anatomical distinction.

Well, there are other cancer tumors in the abdomen quite lethal, very lethal actually pancreas, liver, kidney.

I had a scan at 7 30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas.

So, I set up scientific criteria as to what a sensor would have to look like in order to effectively diagnose pancreatic cancer.

And that our hearts will be rid of that one disease burden that comes from pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer, and potentially any disease.

As soon as enough insulin has been produced, another signal protein comes to the pancreas' cells that tells them to stop making insulin.

Once you're insulin resistant, you're on your way to getting diabetes, which is what happens when your pancreas can't keep up with the resistance and make enough insulin.

And what I had found was an article that listed a database of over 8,000 different proteins that are found when you have pancreatic cancer.

A SCS may also be used for other chronic pain conditions such as chronic pancreatitis and Familial Mediterranean Fever.

Sorry... and he said the reason he was on the news was 'cause they'd done it.

When I was 13, a close family friend who was like an uncle to me passed away from pancreatic cancer.

He suffers from Parkinson's and pancreatitis, and as a I kid it was so hard for me to watch my hero in so much pain.

We've shown you may be able to stop and reverse the progression of early prostate cancer and, by extension, breast cancer, simply by making these changes.

Serum amylase may be normal (in 10 of cases) for cases of acute or chronic pancreatitis (depleted acinar cell mass) and hypertriglyceridemia.

Over 85 percent of all pancreatic cancers are diagnosed late, when someone has less than a two percent chance of survival.

Essentially, first, the protein would have to be found in all pancreatic cancers, at high levels in the bloodstream, in the earliest stages, but also only in cancer.

Beta cells (insulin secretory) and delta cells (somatostatin secretory) are found in the central part of the tail as with the rest of the pancreas.

It's where the thing that's gonna keep your kid from dying of pancreatic cancer comes from, and without access, the person who might come up with the thing that's got your number on it, may never find that answer.