Now new method to reverse resistance

The novel method developed to reverse pancreatic cancer's hostility to chemo may lead to new methods

Stanford researchers have developed a new method to reverse pancreatic cancer's resistance to chemotherapy, an advance that may pave the way for new treatments.

Pancreatic cancer is often aggressive and difficult to treat and also has a poor survival rate, marred by a lack of distinct symptoms and screening tools needed to detect the disease in its initial stages.

In the study, published in the journal Nature Materials, the researchers revealed that the resistance is related to both the physical stiffness of the tissue around the cancerous cells.