New Ways To Treat Pancreatic Cancer

New Ways To Treat Pancreatic Cancer.
Scientists are working to acquire unusual ways to treat pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest types of cancer in the United States. Pancreatic cancer is the fourth prime cause of cancer death in the country. Each year, more than 46000 Americans are diagnosed with the disorder and more than 39000 die from it, according to the US National Cancer Institute. Current treatments allow for drugs, chemotherapy, surgery and radiation therapy, but the five-year survival merit is only about 5 percent. That's in part because it often isn't diagnosed until after it has spread.

And "Today we differentiate more about this form of cancer. We know it usually starts in the pancreatic ducts and that the KRAS gene is mutated in tumor samples from most patients with pancreatic cancer," Dr Abhilasha Nair, an oncologist with the US Food and Drug Administration, said in an operation message release. Scientists are bothersome to develop drugs that target the KRAS mutation, the FDA noted. "Getting the right upper to target the right mutation would be a big break for treating patients with pancreatic cancer.