Pancreatic cancer: From state-of-the-art treatments to promising novel therapies

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 319-334

  Garrido Laguna, Ignacio ^a   Hidalgo, Manuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLIBERCEPT; APATORSEN; AXITINIB; BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; ENSITUXIMAB; ERLOTINIB; EVOFOSFAMIDE; EXATECAN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GEMCITABINE; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR VACCINE; IRINOTECAN; IRINOTECAN SUCROSOFATE; JANUS KINASE INHIBITOR; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN INHIBITOR; MARIMASTAT; MOMELOTINIB; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; PEMETREXED; RUCAPARIB; SMAD4 PROTEIN; SORAFENIB; TIPIFARNIB; UNINDEXED DRUG; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CANCER VACCINE; CYTOTOXIN; HYALURONOGLUCOSAMINIDASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; INDOLEAMINE 2,3 DIOXYGENASE; INDOLEAMINE 2,3-DIOXYGENASE 1, HUMAN; JANUS KINASE; MTOR PROTEIN, HUMAN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; RAS PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER STEM CELL; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG EFFECTS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CANCER VACCINES; CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CYTOTOXINS; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYALURONOGLUCOSAMINIDASE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INDOLEAMINE-PYRROLE 2,3,-DIOXYGENASE; JANUS KINASES; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; RAS PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84930182118     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2015.53     Document Type: Review

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