{"id":182669,"date":"2024-02-14T05:23:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T11:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/promising-new-therapeutic-approach-for-treating-metastatic-pancreatic-cancer"},"modified":"2024-02-14T05:23:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T11:23:48","slug":"promising-new-therapeutic-approach-for-treating-metastatic-pancreatic-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/promising-new-therapeutic-approach-for-treating-metastatic-pancreatic-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Promising new therapeutic approach for treating metastatic pancreatic cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/promising-new-therapeutic-approach-for-treating-metastatic-pancreatic-cancer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43018-024-00731-2\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Cancer<\/i> details new insights into the role of efferocytosis\u2014the burying of dead cells\u2014in pancreatic cancer that spreads to the liver.<\/p>\n<p>Liver metastasis occurs in 40\u201350% of people with pancreatic ductal adenosarcoma (PDAC), and there are currently no effective therapies to cure <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/pancreatic+cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pancreatic cancer<\/a> patients that have <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/liver+metastasis\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">liver metastasis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Led by University of Liverpool\u2019s Professor Michael Schmid and colleagues, this study found PDAC metastases to show high levels of immunosuppressive macrophages, a type of white blood cell that promotes <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/tumor+growth\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tumor growth<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research paper published in Nature Cancer details new insights into the role of efferocytosis\u2014the burying of dead cells\u2014in pancreatic cancer that spreads to the liver. Liver metastasis occurs in 40\u201350% of people with pancreatic ductal adenosarcoma (PDAC), and there are currently no effective therapies to cure pancreatic cancer patients that have liver metastasis. Led [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}