Pancreatic cancers use fructose, common in the Western diet, to fuel their growth

Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 22:28 in Health & Medicine

Pancreatic cancers use the sugar fructose, very common in the Western diet, to activate a key cellular pathway that drives cell division, helping the cancer to grow more quickly, a study has found.

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