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liver metastasis
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Liver biopsies can predict when and where pancreatic cancer will metastasise and may guide treatment of early-stage disease
Liver biopsies undertaken at the time of surgery for pancreatic cancer can be used to identify cellular and molecular markers that predict whether early pancreatic cancer will later metastasise to the liver. The study, published in Nature Medicine, June 28,…
Potential new target to prevent pancreatic cancer from spreading to liver
A mechanism that facilitates pancreatic cancer cells spreading to the liver has been elucidated. The study, published in Cell Reports, 2 November, identifies a ‘therapeutic vulnerability’ where the protein Netrin-1, which is upregulated when pancreatic cancer cells metastasise to the…