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Genetic discovery may explain why pancreatic cancer is so difficult to treat

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Genetic discovery may explain why pancreatic cancer is so difficult to treat
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Pancreatic cancer can remain quiet for years, developing undetected before causing symptoms that lead to a diagnosis. Even after a surgeon removes a pancreas tumor, other cells often hide and erupt later. But University of Rochester Medicine researchers made an important laboratory discovery about why and how this happens—with the goal of targeting pancreas cancer with newer immunotherapy drugs.

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