Heaney, who also serves as co-director of the Pituitary Tumor and Neuroendocrine Program at UCLA comments, “In this study, we show that cancers can use fructose just as readily as glucose to fuel their growth.”

The research paper states that cancer cells used the sugar to generate nucleic acid, which are the building blocks of RNA and DNA that the cancer cells need in order to divide and proliferate.

Heaney also stated, “”I think this paper has a lot of public health implications. Hopefully, at the federal level, there will be some effort to step back on the amount of HFCS in our diets.”

Rather than wait for the government to do something, which could take years (just like it did with anti-smoking campaigns), the results of this important study needs to reach the masses. HFCS may not be unique to just pancreatic cancer but really cancer in general.

So next time you pick up a processed food item in the store, take a stand and put it back on the shelf if it contains High Fructose Corn Syrup. We need to write manufactures and ask them to use alternatives that are safe for consumption without creating health implications over time.

Click to read all the details of this studyfunded by the National Institutes of Health, the Hirschberg Foundation and the Jonsson Cancer Center.