ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Circulating Epithelial Cells in Patients with Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm of the Pancreas.
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- Case Report: E-cadherin and Vimentin expression in advanced-stage pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma tissue and circulating tumor cells: preliminary results from a pilot study.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- EMT and cancer: what clinicians should know.Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2025Review
- KRAS and GNAS mutations in cell-free DNA and in circulating epithelial cells in patients with intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms-an observational pilot study.Molecular oncology · 2025Observational
- Current considerations on intraductal papillary neoplasms of the bile duct and pancreatic duct.World journal of gastroenterology · 2024Article
- Cell-Free Tumor DNA Detection-Based Liquid Biopsy of Plasma and Bile in Patients with Various Pancreatic Neoplasms.Biomedicines · 2024Article
- Circulating tumor cells in pancreatic cancer: more than liquid biopsy.Therapeutic advances in medical oncology · 2024Review
- Liquid biopsy techniques and pancreatic cancer: diagnosis, monitoring, and evaluation.Molecular cancer · 2023Review
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Abstract
Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN) is the most common pancreatic cyst and a precursor of pancreatic cancer (PDAC). Since PDAC has a devastatingly high mortality rate, the early diagnosis and treatment of any precursor lesion are rational. The safety of the existing guidelines on the clinical management of IPMN has been criticized due to unsatisfactory sensitivity and specificity, showing the need for further markers. Blood obtained from patients with IPMN was therefore subjected to size-based isolation of circulating epithelial cells (CECs). We isolated CECs and evaluated their cytological characteristics. Additionally, we compared Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS) mutations in CECs and the primary IPMN tissue, since KRAS mutations are very typical for PDAC. Samples from 27 IPMN patients were analyzed. In 10 (37%) patients, CECs were isolated and showed a hybrid pattern of surface markers involving both epithelial and mesenchymal markers, suggesting a possible EMT process of the cells. Especially, patients with high-grade dysplasia in the main specimen were all CEC-positive. KRAS mutations were also present in CECs but less common than in IPMN tissue. The existence of CEC in IPMN patients offers additional blood-based research possibilities for IMPN biology.
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