Pancreatic Cancer

 

Pancreatic Cancer

Awareness Month – November 2025

 

November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month and this November the charity Pancreatic Cancer Action has launched their #DeadlyKiller campaign.  According to the charity, only 10-20% of patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer are diagnosed in time to receive potentially life-saving treatment.  As such, they aim to raise awareness of the symptoms to assist with early diagnosis.

 

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES  

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.

 

BOOKS

·         Challenges in pancreatic cancer; Vladimirov, Borislav; Kovacheva-Slavova, Mila; 2021 (InTech Open) – [available as an Open Access e-book]

·         Pancreatic Cancer: Methods and Protocols; Su, Gloria H; 2019; (Springer); 3^rd edition – [available as a Keele e-book]

·         Molecular Mechanisms and Therapies of Pancreatic Cancer; Cave, Donatella Delle; 2024 (MDPI) – [available as an Open Access e-book]

·         Pancreas; Shrikhande, Shailesh V; Büchler, Markus, 2022; (Oxford University Press); 1^st edition – [available as an e-book for Keele and NHS]

·         Challenges in Pancreatic Pathology; Seicean, Andrada; 2017; (InTechOpen) – [available as an Open Access e-book]

·         Hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery; Rowan W. Parks; Stephen J. Wigmore; Parks, Rowan W; Wigmore, Stephen J; 2024; (Elsevier); 7^th edition .

·         The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations. Volume 9, Digestive System. Part III, Liver, Biliary Tract, and Pancreas; Netter, Frank H; Reynolds, James C; Ward, Peter J; et a; 2024; (Elsevier); 3^rd Edition – [available as a Keele e-book, & UHNM e-book via Clinical Key]

·         Present and Future of Personalised Medicine for Endocrine Cancers; Ronchi, Cristina L; Ronchi, Cristina L; Altieri, Barbara; 2022 – [available as an Open Access e-book]

·         Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Cancers; Fazio, Nicola; Amoroso, Vito; Berruti, Alfredo; 2023 (MDPI) – [available as an Open Access e-book]

 

JOURNALS

·         Journal of pancreatic cancer, (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2017-2022

·         Endocrine oncology (Bristol, England); Society for Endocrinology, sponsoring body; (Bioscientifica Ltd) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2021 onwards

·         International journal of endocrine oncology; (Future Medicine) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2014 onwards

·         Cancer and metabolism; (BioMed Central) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2013 onwards

·         Hormones and cancer; Li, Jonathan J; Endocrine Society, issuing body; (Springer) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2010 onwards

·         Journal of pancreatology; Xie he yi yuan (Beijing, China); Zhongguo ke xue ji shu xie hui.; (Wolters Kluwer Health) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2018 onwards

N.B. NHS members can obtain temporary Keele IT logins to view Keele e-journals from the Keele IT suite in the Health Library at Royal Stoke. NHS ejournals will require login with an NHS Open Athens account.

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/  

OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL ARTICLES

·         “Exploiting pancreatic cancer metabolism: challenges and opportunities”; De Santis, Maria Chiara; Bockorny, Bruno; Hirsch, Emilio; Cappello, Paola; Martini, Miriam; Trends in molecular medicine, 2024-06, Vol.30 (6), p.592-604; DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2024.03.008

·         “Overcoming therapy resistance in pancreatic cancer: New insights and future directions”; Espona-Fiedler, Margarita; Patthey, Cedric; et al; Biochemical pharmacology, 2024-11, Vol.229, p.116492, Article 116492; DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2024.116492

·         “Living With Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: Patients' Experiences of Daily Life”; Bergqvist, Jenny; Nordberg, Johanna Hök; Wode, Kathrin; et al; Psycho-Oncology, 2025-09, Vol.34 (9), p.e70260-n/a; DOI: 10.1002/pon.70260

·         “High prevalence of pancreatic steatosis in pancreatic cancer patients: A meta-analysis and systematic review”; Vlăduț, Cătălina; Steiner, Corinna; Löhr, Matthias; et al; Pancreatology: official journal of the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP), 2025-02, Vol.25 (1), p.98-107; DOI: 10.1016/j.pan.2024.11.010

·         “Diagnostic and Prognostic Accuracy of MiRNAs in Pancreatic Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis”; Hasani, Fatemeh; Masrour, Mahdi; Khamaki, Sina; et al; Journal of cellular and molecular medicine, 2025-01, Vol.29 (2), p.e70337; DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.70337

·         “Can our experience with surveillance for inherited pancreatic cancer help to identify early pancreatic cancer in the general population?”; Löhr, J.-Matthias; Öhlund, Daniel; Söreskog, Emma; et al; Familial cancer, 2024-08, Vol.23 (3), p.399-403; DOI: 10.1007/s10689-024-00363-6

·         “Prediagnostic blood biomarkers for pancreatic cancer: meta-analysis”; Bengtsson, Axel; Draus, Tomasz; Andersson, Roland; Ansari, Daniel; BJS open, 2024-06, Vol.8 (3), p.1; DOI: 10.1093/bjsopen/zrae046; DOI: 10.1093/bjsopen/zrae046

·         “The hidden impact: social isolation and inflammation’s role in pancreatic cancer risk among those with diabetes”; Ding, Lilu; Qian, Jing; Dai, Ruoqi; et al; BMC cancer, 2025-01, Vol.25 (1), p.58-13, Article 58; DOI: 10.1186/s12885-025-13470-z

·         “Diagnostic delay at diagnosis and time-to-treatment influence overall survival of pancreatic cancer patients”; Ponz de Leon Pisani, R; Archibugi, L; Lazzano, P et al; Digestive and Liver Disease, 2025, Vol. 57 (6), pp. 1308-1314. doi:10.1016/j.dld.2025.03.009

 

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:  

·         NHS website:

o   Pancreatic Cancer - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pancreatic-cancer/

·         Charities / Further information:

o   Pancreatic Cancer UK - https://www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/

o   Pancreatic Cancer Action - https://pancreaticcanceraction.org/

·         Clinical Key Patient Information Leaflets [Only available to NHS staff with Open Athens login]:

o   Pancreatic Cancer - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_9cb92966-1df1-47b7-abec-9ba503d99a1e

 

KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS:  

KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised current awareness service which sends, straight to your email inbox, new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements and collated by Health Librarians. For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/.  

Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month

March 2025

According to the charity, Ovarian Cancer Action, approximately 7,500 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the UK each year, with only 3 in 10 women living beyond 10 years after diagnosis.  In light of this, the charity launched Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, which takes place in March each year.  The campaign aims to raise awareness of ovarian cancer symptoms and statistics.

 

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES  

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.

 

BOOKS   

·         Clark’s Essential Guide to Mammography; Borrelli, Claire; Mercer, Claire; Whitley, A. Stewart; 2024 (CRC Press) – [only available as a Keele e-book]

·         Oxford Handbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Collins, Sally; 2023 (Oxford University Press) – [available to loan from the Health Library at County or available as an NHS e-book]

·         Ovarian cancer: methods and protocols; Kreeger, Pamela K; 2022 (Springer US) – [only available as a Keele e-book]

·         Tumor Angiogenesis Assays: Methods and Protocols; Ribatti, Domenico; Ribatti, Domenico; 2022 (Springer US); 2^nd edition – [only available as a Keele e-book]

·         Histopathology Reporting: Guidelines for Surgical Cancer; Boyle, David P; Allen, Derek C; 2020 (Springer); 4^th edition

·         Essential obstetrics and gynaecology; Symonds, Ian M; Arulkumaran, Sabaratnam; 2019 (Elsevier); 6^th edition

·         Principles of Gynecologic Oncology Surgery; Ramirez, Pedro; 2025 (Elsevier) – [only available as an e-book for UHNM users via Clinical Key with an OpenAthens password]

·         Diagnosis and Treatment of Rare Gynecologic Cancers; Frumovitz, Michael; 2023 (Elsevier) - [only available as an e-book for UHNM users via Clinical Key with an OpenAthens password]

 

JOURNALS   

·         Gynecologic oncology reports; (Elsevier) – [available as an Open Access e-journal from 2014 onwards]

·         Journal of obstetrics, gynecology and cancer research JOGCR; (Tehran Farname Inc) – [available as an Open Access e-journal from 2016]

·         Southern African journal of gynaecological oncology; South African Society of Gynaecologic Oncology; (Medpharm Publications) – [available as an Open Access e-journal from 2009 onwards]

·         Journal of gynecologic oncology; Korean Society of Gynecologic Oncology, issuing body – [available as an Open Access e-journal from 2011 onwards, and as a NHS e-journal 2008 onwards.]

·         Gynecologic oncology (Online); Society of Gynecologic Oncologists; (Elsevier) – [available in print at the Health Library, Royal Stoke from 1996 to 1999, Keele e-journal from 1995 onwards and UHNM e-journal 2007 onwards.]

·         International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics; International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, issuing body; (Elsevier) – [available as a Keele e-journal from 1997 onwards]

·         European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology (Online); (Elsevier) – [available as a Keele e-journal from 1995 onwards, and UHNM e-journal 2007 onwards]

N.B. NHS members can obtain temporary Keele IT log-ins to view e-journals from the Keele IT suite in the Health Library at Royal Stoke. 

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/  

JOURNAL ARTICLES  

·         “Ovarian cancer symptoms in pre-clinical invasive epithelial ovarian cancer – An exploratory analysis nested within the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS)”; Dilley, James; Gentry-Maharaj, Aleksandra; Ryan, Andy; et al; Gynecologic oncology, 2023-12, Vol.179, p.123-130; DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2023.11.005

·         “Multicenter study of ovarian cancer score for diagnosing ovarian cancer”; Wang, Haixia; Zhu, Jianqing; Zou, Dongling; Rao, Qunxian; et al; Gynecologic oncology, 2025-02, Vol.193, p.58-64; DOI:  10.1016/j.ygyno.2024.12.017

·         “Fragmentomics features of ovarian cancer”; Chao, Xiaopei; Kai, Zhentian; Wu, Huanwen; et al; International journal of cancer, 2024-10, Vol.155 (7), p.1316-1326; DOI: 10.1002/ijc.34981

·         “Ovarian Cancer Risk Prediction - a Clinical Epidemiology Perspective”; Wentzensen, Nicolas; Ring, Kari; Erickson, Britt K; et al; American journal of epidemiology, 2024-08; DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwae293

·         “Racial and ethnic differences in epithelial ovarian cancer risk: an analysis from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium”; Meagher, Nicola S; White, Kami K; Wilkens, Lynne R; Bandera, Elisa V; et al; American journal of epidemiology, 2024-09, Vol.193 (9), p.1242-1252; DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwae076

·         “Screening and prevention of ovarian cancer”; Sideris, Michail; Menon, Usha; Manchanda, Ranjit; Medical journal of Australia, 2024-03, Vol.220 (5), p.264-274; DOI: 10.5694/mja2.52227

·         “Promising new drugs and therapeutic approaches for treatment of ovarian cancer-targeting the hallmarks of cancer”; Hillmann, Julia; Maass, Nicolai; et al; BMC medicine, 2025-01, Vol.23 (1), p.10-30, Article 10; DOI: 10.1186/s12916-024-03826-w

·         “Immunotherapy in Recurrent Ovarian Cancer”; Chen, Keyao; Wang, Jingjing; Yang, Meng; Deng, Shaoqiong; Sun, Li; Biomedicines, 2025-01, Vol.13 (1), p.168; DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines13010168

·         “Living a Cancer Surveillance Life: A Meta-Ethnographic Synthesis of Everyday Experiences and Ambivalences for Women Living With Hereditary Risk of Breast and/or Ovarian Cancer.”; Gislinge JIP, Byrjalsen A, Naver KV, et al.; Psycho-oncology.; 2024, Vol. 33 (12), e70054. DOI: 10.1002/pon.70054.

N.B. All the above articles are Open Access so are available online to both Keele & NHS users.

 

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:  

·         NHS website:

o   Genetic Testing - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/predictive-genetic-tests-cancer/

o   Ovarian Cancer - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/ovarian-cancer/

·         Charities / Further information:

o   Ovarian Cancer Action - https://ovarian.org.uk/

o   Target Ovarian Cancer - https://targetovariancancer.org.uk/

o   Ovacome Ovarian Cancer -  https://www.ovacome.org.uk/

·         Clinical Key – Patient Education Leaflets [Available to UHNM only with OpenAthens log-in]:

o   Ovarian Cancer - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_74cacda7-e5bf-47c1-b072-e3f82683f5a8

 

KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS:   

KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised current awareness service which sends, straight to your email inbox, new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements and collated by Health Librarians. For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/.