close Video

NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles!

Scientists have created a new antibody treatment that helps the immune system recognize and attack pancreatic cancer .

Pancreatic cancer cells use a sugary "disguise" to trick the immune system into ignoring them.

Most current cancer immunotherapies target proteins or genes, but this new therapy focuses on the sugars on the cell surface, blocking them so that immune cells can find and attack the cancer, according to researchers from Northwestern University in Chicago.

CANCER VACCINE SHOWS PROMISE IN PREVENTING RECURRENCE OF PANCREATIC, COLORECTAL TUMORS

"Pancreatic cancer is notoriously good at hiding from the immune system, but we were struck that a single sugar, called sialic acid, can so powerfully fool immune cells

See Full Page