[LOCAL10|VIDEO] Researchers at the University of Florida have made a discovery that could lead to earlier detection of pancreatic cancer, a disease that ranks as the third leading cause of death in the U.S. because it’s often detected in late stages.
Study senior author Dr. Tom Schmittgen and his team at the U.F. College of Pharmacy have identified two small molecules that inhibit pre-cancerous cell progression.
These molecules could also actually reverse a process that precedes pancreatic cancer.
“We take cells from the pancreas, either from mice with tumors or human organ donors and we culture these in a special way in the lab and we can study these by adding drugs to see if we can, again, inhibit or reverse this process,” Schmittgen said. [FULLSTORY]
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