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A new discovery about a supposedly simple cancer may pave the way for new treatments for both it and many other cancers.

For those whose memories of high-school biology are a little hazy, organelles are structures inside cells that perform specific functions. The one we just discovered is pretty freaky.

When our David Kashatus, PhD, was first interviewing here in 2012, he laid out an ambitious research project that would help us better understand pancreatic cancer. Seven years later, he has completed that work and given us important new insights into how the aggressive cancer fuels its growth.

Our Timothy Bullock, PhD, and his team have discovered a defect in immune cells known as “killer T cells” that explains why they struggle to destroy cancer tumors. By fixing this defect, scientists could make the cells much better at killing cancer cells.

A troubling new study from our Timothy Showalter, MD, points out that providing brachytherapy for advanced cervical cancer actually costs hospital money. And that may explain the declining use of it at many facilities, even though it's the gold-standard treatment. “Studies have time and time again shown that brachytherapy is…