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		melling on Dec 28, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Neuroscientist Ben Barres has died I didn’t say people weren’t trying. I was asking for more research. Pancreatic cancer is not generously funded. Most would argue that it’s underfunded. https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/cancer-funding-doe... https://www.cancer.org/research/currently-funded-cancer-rese...

gone35 on Dec 28, 2017 [–]

It's not just funding.

For one, the dynamics of the known molecular pathways involved are complex [1], and so far non-trivial to manipulate.

Furthermore, even with an actionable mechanism, targeting the tumor itself is highly non-trivial, due to physiology alone. (See e.g. [2]).

[1] http://www.jcancer.org/v07p1497.htm

[2] http://www.nature.com/articles/nrclinonc.2016.119

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