Blood Pressure Drugs Could Help Halt Pancreatic Cancer Spread, Thomas Jefferson University Researchers Find

(PHILADELPHIA) Common blood pressure medications might help block the spread of pancreatic cancer, researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have found. The scientists showed in laboratory studies that two types of pressure-lowering drugs ?ACE inhibitors and AT1R blockers ?may help reduce the development of tumor-feeding blood vessels, a process called angiogenesis. Such drugs, they say, may become part of a novel strategy to control the growth and spread of cancer.

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