Pancreatic cancer cells can change their ‘diet’ to keep growing, by switching from the sugar glucose to a back-up fuel called uridine, new research reveals. The findings suggest that blocking the availability of uridine using new drugs could become a new treatment strategy for the most common and aggressive form of pancreatic cancer. The researchers believe uridine could help fuel other cancers too – such as lung, stomach and brain cancer. The study was led by scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and the University of Michigan in the US. It is published in Nature today (Wednesday) and … Continue reading Pancreatic cancer changes its ‘diet’ to survive