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ReviewEBioMedicine2020

Recent insights into the biology of pancreatic cancer.

Wantong Yao, Anirban Maitra, Haoqiang Ying

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Review in EBioMedicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

83 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Discovery of quinazoline-based derivatives as novel autophagy inhibitors in pancreatic cancer.Medicinal chemistry research : an international journal for rapid communications on design and mechanisms of action of biologically active agents · 2026
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  9. Molecular insights into immune evasion and therapeutic paradigms in pancreatic cancer.Chinese journal of cancer research = Chung-kuo yen cheng yen chiu · 2025
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  20. Gene Expression Array Analyses Predict Proto-Oncogene Expression During Perineural Invasion in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Wantong YaoDepartment of Translational Molecular Pathology, Houston, TX, USA.
Anirban MaitraDepartment of Translational Molecular Pathology, Houston, TX, USA; Sheikh Ahmed Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Houston, TX, USA.
Haoqiang YingDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. Electronic address: hying@mdanderson.org.

Funding

Translational Applications in an Animal Model of Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasm and CancerR01CA218004 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI MAITRA, ANIRBAN · 2018 to 2021
$2.4M
Elucidating and targeting subtype-specific driver in pancreatic cancerR01CA214793 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI YING, HAOQIANG · 2019 to 2023
$1.8M
Wnt/?-catenin Signaling in Pancreatic OncogenesisR01CA220236 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI MAITRA, ANIRBAN · 2017 to 2023
$1.8M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA214793NCI NIH HHS R01 CA218004NCI NIH HHS R01 CA220236
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pancreatic cancer (PDAC) is one of the deadliest types of human cancers, owing to late stage at presentation and pervasive therapeutic resistance. The extensive tumour heterogeneity, as well as substantial crosstalk between the neoplastic epithelium and components within the microenvironment are the defining features of PDAC biology that dictate the dismal natural history. Recent advances in genomic and molecular profiling have informed on the genetic makeup and evolutionary patterns of tumour progression, leading to treatment breakthroughs in minor subsets of patients with specific tumour mutational profiles. The nature and function of tumour heterogeneity, including stromal heterogeneity, in PDAC development and therapeutic resistance, are increasingly being elucidated. Deep insight has been gained regarding the metabolic and immunological deregulation, which further sheds light on the complex biology and the observed treatment recalcitrance. Here we will summarize these recent achievements and offer our perspective on the path forward.

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AdenocarcinomaAnimalsGenetic HeterogeneityHumansImmunotherapyPancreatic NeoplasmsTranscriptomeTumor EscapeCancer metabolismEvasionGeneticsImmuneImmunotherapyPancreatic cancerTtumour heterogeneity

Identifiers

PMID32139179
PMCPMC7118569

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