Pancreatic cancer genomes: Toward molecular subtyping and novel approaches to diagnosis and therapy

Molecular Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 287-297

  Wood, Laura D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53;

ACINAR CELL CARCINOMA; ADULT; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CYSTADENOMA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS TUMOR; MALE; MICROADENOMA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUCINOUS CYSTIC NEOPLASM; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS ADENOMA; PANCREAS CYST; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREATIC NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLID PSEUDOPAPILLARY TUMOR; SOMATIC MUTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

CARCINOMA, ACINAR CELL; CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; GENES, NEOPLASM; GENOME, HUMAN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84885123394     PISSN: 11771062     EISSN: 11792000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40291-013-0043-6     Document Type: Review

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