Abstract

Pancreatic cancer has very poor prognosis and has a very low five-year survival rate of the order of 5%. This is so because of the lack of major clinical symptoms and reliable detection markers. Recently, it has been realized that hypoxia is one of the major contributors to tumor growth, malignancy, invasion, propagation, metastasis, and resistance to therapy in several solid tumors including the pancreatic cancer. Understandably, it has gained even more importance in pancreatic cancer and is considered as the primary target for its therapy in the recent times since it has been identified as the major determinant of cancer malignancy.

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