One of the worst / deadliest cancers that can happen to a person is pancreatic cancer. There are several reasons for this: early on, it rarely provides symptoms that indicate it's happening; it's most treatable early (when it's largely undetectable); and because it's such a killer when it's advanced, it has been hard to develop treatments for it that work.
That might possibly be changing.
Breakthrough in fight against world's deadliest cancer - new drug shrunk up to 70% of pancreatic tumors in lab study"Dr Olive said: ‘RMC-7977 [name of the new drug] as a single agent outperformed the best combination regimen that has ever been reported in the literature in that model system,’ adding that it was the first time he had seen tumors routinely get small across all models.
They also found that the treatment did not harm other, healthy cells. Many cancer treatments, including chemo and radiation, can harm healthy cells while targeting cancer cells."
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