Few diseases are as brutally efficient as pancreatic cancer. Despite surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatments, it typically kills a person within a year of detection.
Like other cancerous cells, pancreatic tumor cells seem disguised—going unnoticed by the body’s immune system as they wreak havoc. Scientists seeking to blow this cover have now devised a way to attack the tumor by revving up the immune system.
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