Pancreatic cancer

Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Volumn 2, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Kleeff, Jorg ^a,b   Korc, Murray ^c   Apte, Minoti ^d   La Vecchia, Carlo ^e   Johnson, Colin D ^f   Biankin, Andrew V ^g   Neale, Rachel E ^h   Tempero, Margaret ⁱ   Tuveson, David A ^j   Hruban, Ralph H ^k   Neoptolemos, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^h QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

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

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; CA 19-9 ANTIGEN; CAPECITABINE; CISPLATIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GEMCITABINE; GLYPICAN 1; IRINOTECAN; K RAS PROTEIN; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; PROTEIN KINASE LKB1; PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN P53; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TENASCIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; CANCER BASIC PROTEIN, HUMAN; KRAS PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN P21; TUMOR MARKER; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MODEL; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CARCINOGENESIS; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COFFEE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; METABOLIC REGULATION; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MORTALITY RATE; MOUSE MUTANT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SMOKING; STROMA CELL; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT LOSS; IMMUNOLOGY; JAUNDICE; MOUSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; DIABETES MELLITUS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; JAUNDICE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS P21(RAS); RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 85019538575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2056676X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrdp.2016.22     Document Type: Article

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