ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Systemic Effects on Metastasis - a look beyond the tumor
What would you do if you were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer? The chance that it would happen is not that high (life-time risk of 1/60), but neither is the chance to survive (10%). In addition, the quality of life as a patient is severely compromised by inadequate understanding of the metastatic process, and lack of targeted treatment options or biomarkers to individualize treatment, leading to severe side-effects despite lack of treatment response in most cases. To make a difference and challenge this disease, by appreciating the systemic nature of cancer, I propose to focus on the role of the liver, the main organ of metastasis leading to subsequent death, in pancreatic cancer. I…
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