Providence discusses pancreatic cancer breakthrough

Doctors at the Providence Cancer Institute (PCI) in Portland are celebrating the successful application of a new immunotherapy to drastically reduce a patient's tumor size.

The treatment, published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, came about when Kathy Wilkes of Florida reached out to Providence from across the country. Her pancreatic cancer was back and had metastasized into her lungs.

"It's one of the deadliest forms of cancer," said Dr. Eric Tran, with Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, a division of PCI.

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