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The article provides answers to several questions about pancreatic cancer-related diagnoses, risk factors, and treatments, and it mentions how television quiz show "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek revealed that he has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

A question and answer is provided on the relationship between patient mortality and the diagnosis and screening for pancreatic cancer.

The article reports on the findings of a research led by Indian-American scientist Raghu Kalluri at the University of Texas at Houston M.D. Anderson Cancer Center which showed that a simple blood test could be developed to detect whether a person hapancreatic cancer s without having to do a biopsy.

The article discusses health-related research results on several topics including a reduced incidence of car accidents among men following cataract surgery, an imaging tool that could have value in detecting precancerous pancreatic growths, and a link between falls in older adults and imbalances in the lower extremities.

The article reports on the plan of TrovaGene Inc. to introduce a urine-based test that can determine the effectivity of a specific therapy in the reduction of a patient's pancreatic cancer. According to chief executive officer (CEO) Antonius Schuh, the test is a personalized medicine since physicians have the option in prescribing alternative therapy if the test indicates no progression in the treatment. It adds that the test can serve as early detection for pancreatic cancer.

A new study has found that high bodily levels of the trace elements nickel and selenium may be associated with reduced risk for pancreatic cancer, and that high levels of arsenic, cadmium and lead may increase the risk. The study, published online Dec. 19 in the journal Gut, included 118 pancreatic cancer patients and 399 patients with other diagnoses at several hospitals in Spain. Researchers analyzed toenail samples with plasma mass spectrometry, a highly sensitive technique for detecting trace elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dr. Ronald M. Davis, a former president of the American Medical Association who campaigned against tobacco, alcohol, obesity, illicit drugs and unhealthy lifestyles in his career as a public health official, died Thursday at his home in East Lansing, Mich. He was 52. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said Brenda Craine, a spokeswoman for the medical association. Dr. Davis received the diagnosis in February and had since helped to raise public awareness of the disease, which afflicts 37,000 Americans a year and kills 34,000. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]