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Unique metabolic features of pancreatic cancer stroma: relevance to the tumor compartment, prognosis, and invasive potential.
Oncotarget - 29 Nov 2016
Knudsen Erik S, Balaji Uthra, Freinkman Elizaveta, McCue Peter, Witkiewicz Agnieszka K
Abstract excerpt
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has a dismal prognosis. The aggressiveness and therapeutic recalcitrance of this malignancy has been attributed to multiple factors including the influence of an active desmoplastic stroma. How the stromal microenvironment of PDAC contributes to the fatal nature of this disease is not well defined. In the analysis of clinical specimens, we observed diverse expression of the...
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