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Inactivation of Smad4 Accelerates KrasG12D-Mediated Pancreatic Neoplasia
1 Sept 2007
Abstract excerpt
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most fatal human malignancies, with an overall 5-year survival rate of <5%. Genetic analysis of PDAC patient samples has shown that specific disease-associated mutations are correlated with histologically defined stages of neoplastic progression in the ductal epithelium. Activating mutations in KRAS are almost uniformly present in early-stage disease, with...
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