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Scientists show how to attack the ‘fortress’ surrounding pancreatic cancer tumors – Science Daily

Tackling the scar tissue that shields pancreatic tumors from effective drug access is a promising advance in a notoriously hard-to-treat cancer.

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UNSW medical researchers have found a way to starve pancreatic cancer cells and ‘disable’ the cells that block treatment from working effectively. Their findings in mice and human lab models — which have been 10 years in the making and are about to be put to the test in a human clinical trial — are published today in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.”Pancreatic cancer has seen minimal improvement in survival for the last four decades — and without immediate…

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