2025

Chronic stress and obesity work together to accelerate pancreatic cancer development and growth, study finds

Dr. Gang Li, UCLA Fielding School professor of biostatistics, co-authored research on pancreatic cancer.

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March 3, 2025

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Dr. Gang Li co-authored research that finds chronic stress and an unhealthy diet may work together to fuel the early development of pancreatic cancer. Along with serving as a professor of biostatistics, Dr. Li also serves with UCLA's Johnson Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the UCLA Health system.

The study was published March 3 in the journal Molecular Cancer Research.

For more information, read the UCLA Health release.

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