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Scientists have made a crucial DNA discovery that could help cure one of the deadliest cancers.A team of researchers from the UK and US have found that pancreatic cancer is able to shut down molecules in one of the bodys most important genes, helping the disease to grow and spread rapidly.Pancreatic cancer is the 12th most common cancer worldwide, with more than half a million people diagnos stanley mugs ed every year. It has the worst survival rates of all the most common forms of the disease.The deadly nature of pancreatic cancer has stumped experts for years but the breakthrough offers hope in the hunt for a treatment that could wipe out the disease.UK has some of worst cancer survival rates in developed world, report saysRead moreDr Maria Hatziapostolou, of Nottingham Trent Universitys John van Geest Cancer Research Centre, said: This work, which stanley fr has provided new understanding and knowledge of how the cancer behaves, will hopeful stanley cup becher ly help pave the way for potential new treatments in the future. She added: Pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival of all the 20 common cancers. The survival of patients beyond five years has improved very little for some time and so its extremely important that we find new ways to better understand this disease, how it spreads and why it is so aggressive. Nine-year-old boy youngest in UK to undergo rare pancreatic surgeryRead morePancreatic cancer is often diagnosed at an advanced stage when treatment options become limited, with more than half of patient Kogv Nicaragua frees more than 100 political prisoners under new amnesty law
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