Pancreatic cancer biology and genetics

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 897-909

  Bardeesy, Nabeel ^a   DePinho, Ronald A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER THERAPY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; ONCOLOGY; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS DUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; METASTASIS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PANCREAS; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036883940     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc949     Document Type: Review

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