A dual-threshold model for measuring the pancreatic tumor marker serum carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) identified patients with pancreatic cancer who had high-risk disease despite having low CA19-9 levels because of a genetic variation that impairs their ability to produce this biomarker.
Rachna Shroff, a physician-scientist who spent much of her career researching treatments for pancreatic and biliary cancers, has died at the age of 47. She briefly battled an aggressive cancer of an unknown origin.
