Pancreatic cancer tumors attack the blood vessels that deliver chemo drugs
New insights into how pancreatic cancer spreads could lead to more effective treatments
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New research finds that pancreatic cancer cells (green) invade and kill surrounding blood vessels (red). This could explain why this deadly cancer is so hard to treat: most chemotherapy drugs use the tumor's blood supply as a delivery mechanism.
Duc-Huy Nguyen and Esak Lee