Article
Gene Variants That Affect Levels of Circulating Tumor Markers Increase Identification of Patients With Pancreatic Cancer
3 Nov 2019
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Levels of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9), and cancer antigen 125 (CA-125) in blood are used as markers to determine the response of patients with cancer to therapy, but are not used to identify patients with pancreatic cancer. METHODS: We obtained blood samples from 504 patients undergoing pancreatic surveillance from 2002 through 2018 who did not develop...
