How Animal Models Have Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Research

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Sep, 2014

How Animal Models Have Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Research

  • Posted on September 03, 2014 by Pharma Models Blogging Team in Oncology

Pancreatic cancer has one of the lowest 5-year survival rates and leads to approximately 40,000 deaths in the United States each year, the American Cancer Society reported. The survival rates of this disease are very low – only 6 percent of patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer are alive five years later. However, incorporating animal models […]

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May, 2014

Four Tumor Models Vital in Our Search for a Cancer Cure

  • Posted on May 26, 2014 by Pharma Models Blogging Team in Oncology

Many early steps in cancer research began in either animal or tumor models. Without these prototypes, researchers would not have been able to create effective drug treatments or find a cure. In the 1960s, the earliest in vivo tumor models were developed, which were ascites models or murine leukemia models. A paper published in the […]

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