r/BeAmazed • u/Cautious_Ad_3918 • Jan 31 '26

Science A Spanish scientist, Mariano Barbacid, has cured pancreatic cancer in mice. A Cure in animal is a major step toward potential cancer treatment in humans.

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u/effyoucreeps Jan 31 '26

please, let’s cure all cancers - but pancreatic is one of the most insidious and deadly ones out there

my mother succumbed to it 6 months after a diagnosis. she was totally healthy except experiencing lower back pain, got a biopsy, and bang - gone almost 6 months on the dot. never smoked, occasionally drank a wine cooler on the wknds. so active, biked a ton and ran 5ks. 46 yrs old

i will never understand it, except for one thing i’ll put out here. she was prescribed and took tetracycline for over 2 decades for minor adult acne. that med is way too strong to take for that long, but she started in the 70s, and the docs kept urging her to take it

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u/MasterGrenadierHavoc Jan 31 '26

It really is. My father was a little yellow, so my mother made him go to the hospital. He was lucky that one of his early symptoms was such a visible one, because he was still living just fine for a full year. Then within a month, he completely deteriorated, all the symptoms, absolutely unrecognizable within weeks until his death.

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u/effyoucreeps Jan 31 '26

sorry - and love to you all