STAT+: A breakthrough in pancreatic cancer has experts excited — and braced for what’s to come

LONDON — When researchers started planning a pancreatic cancer conference here, the aim was to simply offer a counterpart to a regular U.S. meeting, where international scientists and doctors could discuss the latest developments in the specialty.  Then came the biggest shake-up in pancreatic cancer care in decades.  “It’s one of those moments,” Talia Golan, an oncologist at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, said on a panel that conference organizers hastily added to the schedule centered on a new ...