New Drug for Pancreatic Cancer

Scientists from the British managed to find a cure for pancreatic cancer. According to scientists from Cancer Research UK, aggressive pancreatic cancer may be cured by this drug.

Tumors or cancer of the pancreas is extremely dangerous. Only one in five people who can survive for a year after being diagnosed. This is because the gene is turned off by people with cancer cells.

Now, researchers are testing drugs that have the potential to alter gene and stop the spread of cancer cells. This treatment has been practiced to mice indicate that USP9x gene, which controls the cell to divide, turned off by the cancer cells.

Gene is not mutated, but proteins and other chemicals and make the gene stops dead. "We suspect that the fault is not in the genetic code, but a chemical that turns the gene off or on. After some more tests, we will confirm, "said researchers from the Cancer Research UK, David Tuveson.

Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, David Adams, said that this study strengthens our understanding of biological cells. "We have to look into cell biological systems to identify all the genes that play a role in cancer," he explained.

Each year, approximately 7,800 people in the UK are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is dangerous, to belong to the five most deadly cancers.