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Pancreatic cancer rewrites its DNA to evade treatment, study finds

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Pancreatic cancer kills about 85 percent of patients within five years of diagnosis. A study of 443,451 individual cancer cells from 62 tumors shows how the disease keeps rewriting its DNA, producing cell populations that resist chemotherapy and spread.

Updated Oct 27