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Pancreatic Cancer Trial Shows Pill Doubling Survival Rates

By Bob Cronin with Newser.AIMay 31, 2026 · 1 min read

A pill that's been in the works since the Carter administration has changed the math on one of the deadliest cancers. In a study of 500 people with advanced pancreatic cancer whose disease had already worsened after one round of treatment, those who took the …

The once-"undruggable" target is KRAS, a gene that fuels most pancreatic cancers and some lung and colorectal cancers. Oncologists called the findings a landmark, though they stress the pill is not a…

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