This discovery could make a difference in the fight against this disease. 👏
The Embassy of Spain in the UK went on to share the achievement on X yesterday (January 28), explaining how this can impact the future of medicine.
They wrote: « A team of scientists from the Spanish Cancer Research Centre, led by the renowned Dr Mariano Barbacid, has achieved the complete and permanent disappearance of pancreatic cancer in experimental models. This discovery could make a difference in the fight against this disease. »
However, human trials are not yet available, with Barbacid explaining in a press release: « It is important to understand that, although experimental results like those described here have never been obtained before, we are not yet in a position to carry out clinical trials with the triple therapy. »
While acknowledging that utilising this breakthrough to treat humans ‘will not be easy’, the authors said it ‘could open the door to new therapeutic options to improve the clinical outcome of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in the not-too-distant future’.
That sounds like something worth celebrating.Scientists reveal how colon cancer is only type of cancer where deaths are increasing for people under 50
Colon cancer has become the deadliest cancer for people under the age of 50, despite more young people surviving cancer than ever before
Warning: This article contains discussion of cancer which some readers may find distressing.
Even though the world can seem like an increasingly gloomy place, one shining light in the darkness has to be the ever-increasing number of people surviving cancer. However, the exception, sadly, is colon cancer.
Modern science has allowed humanity to fight back against many cancers that would previously have gone undetected and untreated, causing millions to live longer and healthier lives. But for a certain group, colon cancers are beating this positive trend.
Scientific progress has drastically reduced the number of cancer deaths across all age groups, including almost all cancers that affect younger people. But, despite deaths from all other forms of cancer decreasing, forms of the disease that affect the colon have continued to rise in those under the age of 50.According to a new report from the American Cancer Society, for the first time, colorectal cancer has become the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in younger people – and scientists say the reason could be a lack of awareness of the disease’s more obvious warning signs.
