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ReviewCancers2020

Recent Discoveries of Diagnostic, Prognostic and Predictive Biomarkers for Pancreatic Cancer.

Andrii Khomiak, Marius Brunner, Maximilian Kordes, Stina Lindblad, Rainer Christoph Miksch, Daniel Öhlund, Ivonne Regel

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In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Andrii KhomiakShalimov National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology, 03058 Kyiv, Ukraine.ORCID 0000-0003-0974-4965
Marius BrunnerDepartment of Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and Gastrointestinal Oncology, University Medical Center, 37075 Goettingen, Germany.
Maximilian KordesDepartment of Upper Abdominal Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, 14186 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-5715-0881
Stina LindbladDepartment of Radiation Sciences, Sweden and Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Umeå University, 90187 Umeå, Sweden.
Rainer Christoph MikschDepartment of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital, LMU Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9388-5335
Daniel ÖhlundDepartment of Radiation Sciences, Sweden and Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Umeå University, 90187 Umeå, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-5847-2778
Ivonne RegelDepartment of Medicine II, University Hospital, LMU Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany.
LMU Klinikum · DEUmeå University · SEKarolinska University Hospital · SENational Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine · UAUniversity of Göttingen · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an aggressive disease with a dismal prognosis that is frequently diagnosed at an advanced stage. Although less common than other malignant diseases, it currently ranks as the fourth most common cause of cancer-related death in the European Union with a five-year survival rate of below 9%. Surgical resection, followed by adjuvant chemotherapy, remains the only potentially curative treatment but only a minority of patients is diagnosed with locally resectable, non-metastatic disease. Patients with advanced disease are treated with chemotherapy but high rates of treatment resistance and unfavorable side-effect profiles of some of the used regimens remain major challenges. Biomarkers reflect pathophysiological or physiological processes linked to a disease and can be used as diagnostic, prognostic and predictive tools. Thus, accurate biomarkers can allow for better patient stratification and guide therapy choices. Currently, the only broadly used biomarker for PDAC, CA 19-9, has multiple limitations and the need for novel biomarkers is urgent. In this review, we highlight the current situation, recent discoveries and developments in the field of biomarkers of PDAC and their potential clinical applications.

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DNA biomarkersimmune biomarkersmetabolome biomarkersmicrobiome biomarkerspancreatic cancerpancreatic ductal adenocarcinomaprotein biomarkers

Identifiers

PMID33147766
PMCPMC7692691
OpenAlexW3094736799

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