{"id":750791,"date":"2026-08-26T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750791\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:12:09","slug":"wrexham-hospital-trials-breath-test-for-pancreatic-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750791\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham hospital trials breath test for pancreatic cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Katherine Free from Pancreatic Cancer UK said following a previous successful trial of the breath test, it was now moving to &#8220;an advanced clinical trial&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The test would then be given to thousands of people with an unknown diagnosis &#8211; people who have &#8220;suspicious symptoms that could be pancreatic cancer, or could be something else&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is one of the major challenges of pancreatic cancer,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The symptoms are very vague. It&#8217;s things like indigestion, back pain, changes to your poo, weight loss. So they could be pancreatic cancer, but they could also be lots of other different conditions as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is currently no early detection test to help doctors, but Free said if the clinical trial showed it could accurately detect pancreatic cancer, it could be &#8220;a game changer&#8221; for patients around the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Katherine Free from Pancreatic Cancer UK said following a previous successful trial of the breath test, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-750791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}