Pancreatic cancer: advances and challenges

CJ Halbrook, CA Lyssiotis, MP di Magliano, A Maitra - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains one of the deadliest cancers. Significant
efforts have largely defined major genetic factors driving PDAC pathogenesis and …

Pancreatic cancer evolution and heterogeneity: integrating omics and clinical data

AA Connor, S Gallinger - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), already among the deadliest epithelial
malignancies, is rising in both incidence and contribution to overall cancer deaths. Decades …

Anti-tumor efficacy of a potent and selective non-covalent KRASG12D inhibitor

J Hallin, V Bowcut, A Calinisan, DM Briere, L Hargis… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Recent progress in targeting KRASG12C has provided both insight and inspiration for
targeting alternative KRAS mutants. In this study, we evaluated the mechanism of action and …

3D genomic map** 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 …

Epithelial memory of inflammation limits tissue damage while promoting pancreatic tumorigenesis

E Del Poggetto, IL Ho, C Balestrieri, EY Yen, S Zhang… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The association between tumors and inflammation is a long-established
clinical observation. Although many studies have demonstrated that the inflammatory …

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: biological hallmarks, current status, and future perspectives of combined modality treatment approaches

M Orth, P Metzger, S Gerum, J Mayerle, G Schneider… - Radiation …, 2019 - Springer
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly devastating disease with poor
prognosis and rising incidence. Late detection and a particularly aggressive biology are the …

The pancreatic cancer genome revisited

A Hayashi, J Hong… - … reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer is a genetic disease, and the recurrent genetic alterations characteristic of
pancreatic cancer indicate the cellular processes that are targeted for malignant …

KRAS: the critical driver and therapeutic target for pancreatic cancer

AM Waters, CJ Der - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2018 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
RAS genes (HRAS, KRAS, and NRAS) comprise the most frequently mutated oncogene
family in human cancer. With the highest RAS mutation frequencies seen with the top three …

The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers

M Gerstung, C Jolly, I Leshchiner, SC Dentro… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer develops through a process of somatic evolution,. Sequencing data from a single
biopsy represent a snapshot of this process that can reveal the timing of specific genomic …

Regulatory T-cell depletion alters the tumor microenvironment and accelerates pancreatic carcinogenesis

Y Zhang, J Lazarus, NG Steele, W Yan, HJ Lee… - Cancer …, 2020 - aacrjournals.org
Regulatory T cells (Treg) are abundant in human and mouse pancreatic cancer. To
understand the contribution to the immunosuppressive microenvironment, we depleted …