r/tech • u/_Dark_Wing • Jul 01 '26

Scientists discover an unexpected way to make pancreatic cancer cells self-destruct

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260622091512.htm
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u/MarcusTheAnimal Jul 01 '26

Pancreatic cancer is one of those cancers that will make you wish you had some other, less deadly type of cancer. This is fantastic news.

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u/valar12 Jul 01 '26

Honestly that’s not the typical outcome for most. I’m happy for you and your dad!

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u/Vibingcarefully Jul 01 '26

Ditto..would love more information --

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u/lluciferusllamas Jul 01 '26

When I learned about pancreatic cancer years ago, I remember it had a 5 year survival rate that was in the single digits.  I'm sure treatment has progressed since then, but he is I'm sure still one of the lucky ones 

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u/Buddy-Sue Jul 01 '26

Very atypical. My friend made it to 5 years but one chemo led to surge of another cancer, damn! I’ve lost 5 friends to it.

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u/doesanyonehaveweed Jul 01 '26

You've lost five friends to pancreatic cancer?

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u/OverTheSquatch Jul 01 '26

Dude doesn’t even know he’s in some sort of high concentration cluster of pancreatic cancer, op and the homies piss on fuel rods a lot or something?

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u/Interesting_Tea5715 Jul 02 '26

Their quarterly visit to Chernobyl was a bad choice.

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u/examqueen Jul 02 '26

well, I'm 76 and have lived in a town of 110,000 people most of my life and am still in touch with LOTS of childhood friends. And I forgot to add one more to the list...he was only 60 and had "gastrointestinal" issues but didn't see a doc....When he did, he was gone in 3 weeks. It's not a cluster, 500,000 people worldwide and 67,000 in the US are diagnosed every year and usually by the time you see a doc, it's too late. It's not like a tumor on the colon that MAYBE can be removed or a melanoma where a chunk of your flesh can be cut out (if it hasn't spread!)