- Pancreatic cancer is often hard to detect and treat.
- Tumors can grow quietly for many years inside body.
- Surgery may remove a tumor but not all cells.
- This cancer has a low survival rate.
- Researchers found a gene that can hide cancer.
- The gene stops immune cells from finding tumors.
- Time of day can change immune cell attack.
- Some vaccine trials helped only some patients for years.
- Scientists now study new ways to improve treatment.
Difficult words
- pancreatic — relating to the pancreas, an organ in the body
- tumor — a mass of cells that should not growTumors
- surgery — a medical operation to remove or fix parts
- survival — the length of time people live after illness
- gene — a small part of DNA that gives instructions
- immune — relating to the body's system that fights disease
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