Pancreatic Cancer Exploits Wound-Healing Mechanism to Evade Immune System
A recently published study from Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine has discovered a mechanism that pancreatic cancer cells use to evade the immune system. Senior study author and Professor of Genetic Engineering Brian D. Brown, PhD, explains that this immunity evasion ability has made pancreatic cancer among the hardest types of cancer to treat; it ranks as one of the most deadly cancers and the five-year survival rate is around 13%. His research team found that certain pancreatic cancer cells take advantage of the body’s natural wound-healing systems to shield themselves from the immune system, providing significant insight into why this cancer is so deadly, and opening the door to new…