Study Explores Using Blood Pressure Drugs to Stop Pancreatic Cancer
Hwyda Arafat, MD, PhD, has been awarded a four-year American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant to analyze the potential for using high blood pressure medications to block the spread of pancreatic cancer. The grant, which is worth approximately $720,000 and takes effect on July 1, 2007, will fund her group’s continuing study of the impact ACE inhibitors and AT1R blockers have on the development of tumor-feeding blood vessels. Dr Arafat is assistant professor of surgery at the Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson in Philadelphia.
Source: TJU News
Related Links: Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, The Pancreas Club and Digestive Disease Week
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