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Exclusion of SMAD4 mutation as an early genetic change in human pancreatic ductal tumorigenesis.
Genes, chromosomes & cancer - 1 Jul 2001
Inoue H, Furukawa T, Sunamura M, Takeda K, Matsuno S, Horii A
Abstract excerpt
Pancreatic ductal carcinoma is one of the malignant diseases with the poorest prognosis. To develop effective methods for better treatment of pancreatic cancer patients, we tried to analyze the course of multistep carcinogenesis of the pancreatic ductal cells. IPMT (intraductal papillary-mucinous tumor) is thought to be one of the premalignant lesions of the pancreas, which would transform into carcinomas. Loss...
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