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Pancreatic Cancer Turns Off a Key Gene in Order to Grow
New research finds out how one of the world’s most aggressive cancers is able to spread so quickly.
Pancreatic cancer turns off one of our most important genes in order to be able to grow and spread, new research published in the journal Gastro Hep Advances has found. “Loss of HNF4A drives the development and aggressiveness of pancreatic cancer, and we now know that it is related to poor patient survival,” Hatziapostolou explained in a press release on Monday. “This study gives us new information about how pancreatic cancer is able to suppress certain molecules to spread aggressively in the body, which, in turn, could lead to the development of more effective treatment options,” he added.
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