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Pancreatic cancer cured
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A team of international scientists have discovered a gene capable of slowing the spread of pancreatic cancer, paving the way for treating in the most dangerous cancer.
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After the discovery of a gene called USP9X in study of pancreatic cancer in mice, a team of international scientists have realized they have similar functions in humans.
"We are studying the function of this gene in patients with pancreatic cancer and found that they had somewhat disappeared cancer cells," said David Tuveson told AFP. "Patients with pancreatic cancer have less USP9X will die very quickly after surgery and or metastasis (spreading cancer) in later stages."
Scientists previously knew USP9X present in all human cells, but no one knows its cancer inhibition, Tuveson said.
In addition, there are also 3 other genes having similar functions but the absence of USP9X is the main cause that the metastatic pancreatic cancer patients die quickly.
Detection means "awakened drug USP9X gene" as an epigenetic modulator, the scientists said.
96% of patients with pancreatic cancer died from the disease within 5 years after diagnosis, one of the lowest survival rates of cancer. Diagnosis at an early stage is very difficult so the disease is usually discovered only after widespread.
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Translator: nnhanh
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