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| PATRICK SWAYZE'S DEATH HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR MORE RESEARCH IN PANCREATIC CANCER |
| MAYWOOD, IL. -- Fewer than 4 percent of pancreatic cancer patients survive as long as five years. Actor Patrick Swayze, who died this week from the disease, survived less than two years. "It is one of the deadliest cancers," said cancer surgeon Dr. Margaret Shoup, chief of surgical oncology at Loyola University Health System. "Usually by the time we identify the cancer, it is too late for surgery. We need much more research. Unfortunately, pancreatic cancer does not get the kind of attention other cancers receive." Shoup is conducting a clinical trial at Loyola on a cancer vaccine for pancreatic cancer patients. The vaccine, it's hoped, will stimulate a patient's immune system to generate antibodies to attack cancer cells. Other experimental therapies include drugs that target specific proteins in tumors, Shoup said.
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| Based in the western suburbs of Chicago, Loyola University Health System is a quaternary care system with a 61-acre main medical center campus, the 36-acre Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus and 28 primary and specialty care facilities in Cook, Will and DuPage counties. The medical center campus is conveniently located in Maywood, 13 miles west of the Chicago Loop and 8 miles east of Oak Brook, Ill. The heart of the medical center campus, Loyola University Hospital, is a 569-licensed-bed facility. It houses a Level 1 Trauma Center, a Burn Center and the Ronald McDonald� Childrens Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center. Also on campus are the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, Loyola Outpatient Center, Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine and Loyola Oral Health Center as well as the LUC Stritch School of Medicine, the LUC Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the Loyola Center for Fitness. Loyola's Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus in Melrose Park includes the 264-bed community hospital, the Gottlieb Center for Fitness and the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Care Center.
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