Pancreatic Cancer

Studies from Wayne State University provide new data on pancreatic cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 10th, 2008

"Pancreatic carcinoma usually is a fatal disease with no cure, mainly due to its invasion and metastasis prior to diagnosis. We analyzed the gene expression profiles of paired primary pancreatic tumors and metastatic lesions from Ela-c-myc transgenic mice in order to identify genes that may be involved in the pancreatic cancer progression," scientists in the United States report.

"Differentially expressed selected genes were verified by semi-quantitative and quantitative RT-PCR. To further evaluate the relevance of some of the selected differentially expressed genes, we investigated their expression pattern in human pancreatic cancer cell lines with high and low...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-06-10)

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