Rochester's big bet on pancreatic cancer

From the blog · Adam Stetzer

Wilmot Cancer Institute just landed a $3 million NCI grant to study one of the harder problems in oncology — why pancreatic cancer is so good at hiding from the body's own defenses. It's the kind of basic-science investment that rarely makes headlines but tends to matter most.

Wilmot Cancer Institute Wins $3M NCI Grant to Study How Pancreatic Cancer Hides From the Immune System

In mouse models, disabling the Dec2 gene in tumor cells cut liver metastasis from more than 60% of liver area to less than 1%, and pushed median survival past the study's endpoint.

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