A new study led by NYU Langone Health, an academic medical centre and hospital in New York, looked at the hundreds of bacteria and fungi that reside in people’s mouths

Only around 5% of people with the disease survive for a decade after diagnosis.

It is possible to reverse a key process that allows pancreatic cancer cells to grow and spread around the body, scientists have found. Researchers suggest the findings could ultimately pave the way for new treatments of the disease.

People suffering from a rare, hard-to-treat form of pancreatic cancer could be given targeted immunotherapies, new research suggests.