Newly discovered epidermal growth factor receptor active in human pancreatic cancers
Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 11:42
in Health & Medicine
Finally some promising news about pancreatic cancer, one of the most fatal cancers, due to the difficulties of early detection and the lack of effective therapies: Johns Hopkins University pathologist Akhilesh Pandey has identified an epidermal growth factor receptor aberrantly active in approximately a third of the 250 human pancreatic cancers studied.