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it’s not like people aren’t trying. it’s just a real bastard of a disease.

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...

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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