Precision Panc, a platform for pancreatic cancer

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Prof Andrew Biankin - University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

Andrew Biankin talks to ecancer at EAPM 2017 in Belfast.

Pancreatic cancer is the 3rd leading cause of cancer death in Europe and US.

Prof Biankin discusses Precision Panc, which is a platform to share and disseminate data and information about pancreatic cancer that will improve the pathway to successful treatment.

There's a clinical trail option called PRIMUS which finds the right trial for the patient by using data from a sample of their tumour. 

He discusses the problems with lower incidence cancers such as pancreatic cancers.