STAT+: A breakthrough in pancreatic cancer has experts excited — and braced for what’s to come

LONDON — When researchers started planning a pancreatic cancer conference here, the aim was to simply offer a counterpart to a regular U.S. meeting, where international scientists and doctors could discuss the latest developments in the specialty. 

Then came the biggest shake-up in pancreatic cancer care in decades. 

“It’s one of those moments,” Talia Golan, an oncologist at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, said on a panel that conference organizers hastily added to the schedule centered on a new pancreatic cancer drug. She likened the medicine’s recent clinical trial performance to other milestones in cancer treatment such as the arrival of the first checkpoint inhibitors. 

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