Walls, co-director of the university's Center for Indigenous Health, will receive a $250,000 grant to further her community-based work improving the health and well-being of native communities
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal forms of cancer. The five-year survival rate is only 11%, according to the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research. The reason pancreatic cancer is so lethal is because of metastasis the spread from a primary tumor site to different areas, said Denis Wirtz, a Johns Hopkins .