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ReviewGut2019

Combating pancreatic cancer with PI3K pathway inhibitors in the era of personalised medicine.

James Rw Conway, David Herrmann, Tr Jeffry Evans, Jennifer P Morton, Paul Timpson

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Review in Gut, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
61citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 92 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Pathway-specific genomic alterations in pancreatic cancer across diverse cohorts.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

James Rw ConwayGarvan Institute of Medical Research & The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Cancer Division, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3787-277X
David HerrmannGarvan Institute of Medical Research & The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Cancer Division, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Tr Jeffry EvansCancer Department, Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, Glasgow, UK.
Jennifer P MortonCancer Department, Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, Glasgow, UK.
Paul TimpsonGarvan Institute of Medical Research & The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Cancer Division, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Garvan Institute of Medical Research · AUInstitute of Cancer Research · CA

Funding

Cancer Research UK 20409Cancer Research UK 29996Cancer Research UK A17196Cancer Research UK A21139
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is among the most deadly solid tumours. This is due to a generally late-stage diagnosis of a primarily treatment-refractory disease. Several large-scale sequencing and mass spectrometry approaches have identified key drivers of this disease and in doing so highlighted the vast heterogeneity of lower frequency mutations that make clinical trials of targeted agents in unselected patients increasingly futile. There is a clear need for improved biomarkers to guide effective targeted therapies, with biomarker-driven clinical trials for personalised medicine becoming increasingly common in several cancers. Interestingly, many of the aberrant signalling pathways in PDAC rely on downstream signal transduction through the mitogen-activated protein kinase and phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathways, which has led to the development of several approaches to target these key regulators, primarily as combination therapies. The following review discusses the trend of PDAC therapy towards molecular subtyping for biomarker-driven personalised therapies, highlighting the key pathways under investigation and their relationship to the PI3K pathway.

Indexed as

Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase InhibitorsPrecision MedicineBiomarkers, TumorCarcinoma, Pancreatic DuctalDisease ProgressionHumansPancreatic NeoplasmsProtein Kinase InhibitorsSignal TransductionBiomarkers, TumorPhosphoinositide-3 Kinase InhibitorsProtein Kinase Inhibitorscell biologyclinical trialspancreatic cancer

Identifiers

PMID30396902
PMCPMC6580874
OpenAlexW2896617398

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