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In reply to the discussion: Pancreatic cancer cells feed off hyaluronic acid [View all]nilram
(3,041 posts)33. It's not about what you eat or put on your face!
Its about a pathway they are trying to exploit. Maybe they can attach a poison to HA, for instance.
Were going to dig deeper into this idea and see if it represents a therapeutic vulnerability that can be drugged.
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Well, that's scary as hell. Hyaluronic acid is in a lot of vitamin supplements. Beef bone broth,
BComplex
Feb 2022
#4
Will be interesting to find whether it has a presence in other tumors
question everything
Feb 2022
#12
My younger brother died of pan. cancer year ago. He never used or imbibed any of those...
FailureToCommunicate
Feb 2022
#16
From this paper it appears that the hyaluronic acid (HA) is not from supplements.
TexLaProgressive
Feb 2022
#35