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Pioneering cancer treatment could generate annual sales of $500m

A Scottish pharmaceuticals firm hopes to be able to develop a pioneering treatment for pancreatic cancer after signing deals that will allow it to combine the technologies developed by two world-leading research institutions.

EctoPharma believes it will be able to achieve a feat that has defeated some of the world’s best pharmaceutical brains with a drug that should boost the body’s ability to fight the cancer.