You’ve got to be to check your ego at the door, man,” Randy Moss said, as he urged all to get annual check-ups and blood tests, which may catch a cancer like his before it becomes symptomatic.

There is one large benefit of the Whipple procedure—it may save your life. In fact, according to some studies the expected five-year survival rate is 16.4% of those who undergo a successful Whipple ...

One of the major goals for pancreatic surgery in Australia ... which is equivalent to a mortality rate of 0.9% overall. Both deaths occurred in patients who underwent Whipple ...

According to Johns Hopkins Pathology, pancreatic cancer is more common in African Americans and often diagnosed in advanced ...

Due to a lack of noticeable symptoms in its early stages and the pancreas’ obscure location behind other organs in the ...

A meta-analysis carried out during 1975–1989 examined the effects of stump management and underlying pathology on pancreatic fistula and mortality rates following pancreaticoduodenectomy (Whipple's ...

A Whipple procedure ... recovers at a different rate, but there are some general aspects of a recovery timeline that apply to most people who have had a Whipple procedure, these include: You ...

"The most important message from our study is that the Ross procedure offers excellent long-term survival rates with low risk of re-intervention even at 20 years," Dr. Shetty said. "This makes the ...

One in five older adults gets an infection up to six months after heart surgery—with women far more likely to develop one, ...