Pancreas - public knowledge, awareness and ignorance, an attempt to initiate a campaign against pancreatic cancer

• Main Author: Lew, Ruth En-Yi
• Other Authors: Thirumaran s/o Thanabalu
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/71530
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Importance: Pancreatic carcinoma is a deadly tumour with one of the worst cancer survival rates. Despite leaps of advancements in cancer therapy, the outlook for patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer has not improved in 40 years. Only a small percentage of patients presenting with pancreatic ca...