In pancreatic cancer, neighbouring non-cancerous cells degrade their own proteins through a process called autophagy and release amino acids that are then taken up and used by the cancer cells. See Letter p.479
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Kamphorst, J., Gottlieb, E. Friendly neighbours feed tumour cells. Nature 536, 401–402 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature19420
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