Article
Recent discoveries in cancer genetics of exocrine pancreatic neoplasia.
Digestion - 1 Aug 1998
Hahn S A, Schmiegel W H
Abstract excerpt
Within the past 4 years major advances in our understanding of pancreatic carcinogenesis have been made. The discovery of a high frequency of mutations in the tumor suppressor genes p16 and p53 together with an extraordinary high rate of K-ras mutations have shed light on how the disturbance of c...
Topics
- Adenocarcinoma
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor
- Humans
- Mutation
- Oncogenes
- Pancreatic Neoplasms
- Prognosis