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Acquisition of epithelial-mesenchymal transition phenotype of gemcitabine-resistant pancreatic cancer cells is linked with activation of the notch signaling pathway.
Cancer research - 15 Mar 2009
Wang Zhiwei, Li Yiwei, Kong Dejuan, Banerjee Sanjeev, Ahmad Aamir, Azmi Asfar Sohail, Ali Shadan, Abbruzzese James L, Gallick Gary E, Sarkar Fazlul H
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Despite rapid advances in many fronts, pancreatic cancer (PC) remains one of the most difficult human malignancies to treat due, in part, to de novo and acquired chemoresistance and radioresistance. Gemcitabine alone or in combination with other conventional therapeutics is the standard of care for the treatment of advanced PC without any significant improvement in the overall survival of patients diagnosed with...
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