Fighting pancreatic cancer with computers and lasers

When Dr John Hermans meets a patient with pancreatic cancer at his hospital, he has to steel himself.Patients with this type of tumour are often diagnosed too late to save them. On average, only 25% survive for a year and 12% are still alive after five years.Major killer‘One difficulty with these patients is that you very seldom have good news,’ said Hermans, a clinician at Radboud University Medical Center, also known as Radboud UMC, in the Netherlands.