Promising target for new pancreatic cancer treatments discovered
Friday, November 5, 2010 - 11:30
in Health & Medicine
For almost three decades, scientists and physicians have known that a gene called the KRAS oncogene is mutated in virtually all pancreatic cancers, making it an important target for scientists looking for a way to stop the growth of pancreatic cancer tumors. Medical researchers have now narrowed the focus of this scientific quest to a protein called RGL2.