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Information of pancreatic cancer treatment, cancer charities and specialist centres
National Charities working within pancreatic disease
Pancreatic Cancer UK, is committed to fighting pancreatic cancer through research, awareness, information and support and other projects of benefit to pancreatic cancer patients. The charity aims to raise awareness of cancer of the pancreas to aid earlier diagnosis and to stimulate and enable more research into better detection and treatment. It provides a central resource of information on pancreatic cancer to patients, caregivers and GPs and a national support network. This web-site is aimed at the UK but also provides links to some sites elsewhere in the world, especially the USA.
The Pancreatitis Supporters Network provides medical information and support for sufferers of the condition called pancreatitis. On this site there is a database of medical information, advice for sufferers and carers and a pen pals network.
Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund
is a national charity dedicated exclusively to funding research into pancreatic cancer throughout the UK. It supports and promotes innovative research into early detection, diagnosis and more effective treatments
List of UK Pancreatic Cancer Centres
There is now strong evidence that outcomes in terms of reduced morbidity(complications) and mortality and improved survival result from surgery being perfomed in high volume, expert centres. Establishment of regional centres in England is due to be complete in 2007/8. Centres are already agreed in Scotland but in Wales and Ireland the services have not yet been formally reorganized.
Whilst relative clarity surrounds centres for cancer management, those centres providing specialist treatment for acute and chronic pancreatitis are less well defined. Most of the Centres also provide the regional specialist benign service and the above list may again be used for initial guidance.
Click here to download a list of the regional centres