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Pancreatic cancer is a terrible disease. “The 5-year relative survival rate for all stages combined is 10%,” according to Cancer Facts & Figures 2021. “Even for the small percentage (11%) of people diagnosed with local disease, the 5-year survival rate is only 39%.*” But cancer researchers are learning more every day about how to find pancreatic cancer early and develop targeted therapies. Laura D. Wood, MD, PhD, a clinician scientist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, joined the podcast to explain why pancreatic cancer is difficult to detect early and how her team is approaching the problem. 2:34 – Laura D. Wood, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Director of GI Pathology in the Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. And she’s an American Cancer Society Research Scholar. 3:32 – As a graduate student she was among the first in the world to sequence the whole exomes of human tumors. What are whol