Article
Road to early detection of pancreatic cancer: Attempts to utilize epigenetic biomarkers.
Cancer letters - 28 Jan 2014
Fukushige Shinichi, Horii Akira
Abstract excerpt
The prognosis of pancreatic cancer is extremely poor, mainly because of its aggressive biological behavior and late onset of symptoms for clinical diagnosis; these impose limitations on therapeutic intervention. Deeper genomic sequencing analyses of pancreatic cancers revealed 12 core pathways and a long duration, nearly 20 years from initiation to distant metastases. This evidence will offer a broader aspect and...
Topics
- Animals
- Biomarkers, Tumor
- DNA Methylation
- Early Detection of Cancer
- Epigenesis, Genetic
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genetic Testing
- Histones
- Humans
- MicroRNAs
