Pancreatic cancer: pathogenesis, screening, diagnosis, and treatment

LD Wood, MI Canto, EM Jaffee, DM Simeone - Gastroenterology, 2022 - Elsevier
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a clinically challenging cancer, due to both its
late stage at diagnosis and its resistance to chemotherapy. However, recent advances in our …

Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) signaling in cancer-A betrayal within

AB Baba, B Rah, GR Bhat, I Mushtaq… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
A ubiquitously expressed cytokine, transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) plays a
significant role in various ongoing cellular mechanisms. The gain or loss-of-function of TGF …

Early detection of pancreatic cancer using DNA-based molecular approaches

AD Singhi, LD Wood - Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 2021 - nature.com
Due to its poor prognosis and the late stage at which it is typically diagnosed, early detection
of pancreatic cancer is a pressing clinical problem. Advances in genomic analysis of human …

Chromosome evolution screens recapitulate tissue-specific tumor aneuploidy patterns

EV Watson, JJK Lee, DC Gulhan, GEM Melloni… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Whole chromosome and arm-level copy number alterations occur at high frequencies in
tumors, but their selective advantages, if any, are poorly understood. Here, utilizing …

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: molecular pathology and predictive biomarkers

M Taherian, H Wang, H Wang - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has an extremely poor prognosis due to the lack
of methods or biomarkers for early diagnosis and its resistance to conventional treatment …

From somatic mutation to early detection: insights from molecular characterization of pancreatic cancer precursor lesions

CG Fischer, LD Wood - The Journal of pathology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Pancreatic cancer arises from noninvasive precursor lesions, including pancreatic
intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN), intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN), and …

3D genomic mapping reveals multifocality of human pancreatic precancers

AM Braxton, AL Kiemen, MP Grahn, A Forjaz… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasias (PanINs) are the most common precursors of
pancreatic cancer, but their small size and inaccessibility in humans make them challenging …

[HTML][HTML] Mutational game changer: Chromothripsis and its emerging relevance to cancer

MNH Luijten, JXT Lee, KC Crasta - Mutation Research/Reviews in Mutation …, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent years, the paradigm that genomic abnormalities in cancer cells arise through
progressive accumulation of mutational events has been challenged by the discovery of …

Early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer: clinical premonitions, timely precursor detection and increased curative-intent surgery

K Søreide, W Ismail, M Roalsø, J Ghotbi… - Cancer …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background The overall poor prognosis in pancreatic cancer is related to late clinical
detection. Early diagnosis remains a considerable challenge in pancreatic cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Histopathologic diagnosis of endometrial precancers: updates and future directions

H Chen, AL Strickland, DH Castrillon - Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology, 2022 - Elsevier
Early detection of endometrial cancer, especially its precancers, remains a critical and
evolving issue in patient management and the quest to decrease mortality due to …