What makes pancreatic cancer so deadly in comparison to other cancers?
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I see a lot of mentions about aggressiveness and lack of symptoms early on but one other interesting factor is that the tumors are not very vascular. A very common thing for tumors to do is something called angiogenesis which means making blood vessels. Tumors use this blood flow to get all the nutrients they need to grow. A lot of pancreatic cancer tumors don’t have as many blood vessels around them. This makes it very hard to get any type of drugs to reach the middle of the tumor. If chemotherapy drugs can’t get to it, they can’t kill it.
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