a $200 000 Innovation Grant from the Canadian Cancer Society has been awarded to Toronto's Princess Margaret Hospital to determine how pancreatic cancer develops within the organ's duct system. Led by Dr. Senthil Muthuswamy, the Princess Margaret Hospital research team has created a 3-D biological model to "recreate the events that lead to cancer formation in the pancreas...the researchers will add genes, hormones, and other agents to see what causes the cells to mutate into cancerous lesions." Pancreatic cancer has a very low survival rate (only about 6% of afflicted patients survive five years after diagnosis), thus it is believed this model will lead to earlier pancreatic cancer detection.
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