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Clinical Significance of the Genetic Landscape of Pancreatic Cancer and Implications for Identification of Potential Long-term Survivors
19 Sept 2012
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PURPOSE: Genetic alterations of KRAS, CDKN2A, TP53, and SMAD4 are the most frequent events in pancreatic cancer. We determined the extent to which these 4 alterations are coexistent in the same carcinoma, and their impact on patient outcome. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Pancreatic cancer patients who underwent an autopsy were studied (n = 79). Matched primary and metastasis tissues were evaluated for intragenic mutations...
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