New combination therapy for pancreatic carcinomas and colon cancer
The current invention is based on combination therapies of nucleoside analogs with inhibitors of either the Nodal/Activin pathway or the mTOR / hedgehog pathway and show a remarkable capacity to eliminate cancer stem cells
and to subsequently inhibit pancreatic and/or colon cancer.
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