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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2024

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: the latest on diagnosis, molecular profiling, and systemic treatments.

Doaa Bugazia, Ebtesam Al-Najjar, Abdullah Esmail, Saifudeen Abdelrahim, Karen Abboud, Adham Abdelrahim, Godsfavour Umoru, Hashem A Rayyan, Ala Abudayyeh, Ala-Eddin Al Moustafa and 1 more

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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30 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Doaa BugaziaDepartment of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
Ebtesam Al-NajjarSection of GI Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology, Houston Methodist Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States.
Abdullah EsmailSection of GI Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology, Houston Methodist Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States.
Saifudeen AbdelrahimChallenge Early College HS, Houston Community College, Houston, TX, United States.
Karen AbboudDepartment of Pharmacy, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, United States.
Adham AbdelrahimEndoprothic Center, Hochwald Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany.
Godsfavour UmoruDepartment of Pharmacy, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, United States.
Hashem A RayyanDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
Ala AbudayyehSection of Nephrology, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States.
Ala-Eddin Al MoustafaCollege of Medicine, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
Maen AbdelrahimSection of GI Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology, Houston Methodist Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is currently the fourth leading cause of death in the United States and is expected to be ranked second in the next 10 years due to poor prognosis and a rising incidence. Distant metastatic PDAC is associated with the worst prognosis among the different phases of PDAC. The diagnostic options for PDAC are convenient and available for staging, tumor response evaluation, and management of resectable or borderline resectable PDAC. However, imaging is crucial in PDAC diagnosis, monitoring, resectability appraisal, and response evaluation. The advancement of medical technologies is evolving, hence the use of imaging in PDAC treatment options has grown as well as the utilization of ctDNA as a tumor marker. Treatment options for metastatic PDAC are minimal with the primary goal of therapy limited to symptom relief or palliation, especially in patients with low functional capacity at the point of diagnosis. Molecular profiling has shown promising potential solutions that would push the treatment boundaries for patients with PDAC. In this review, we will discuss the latest updates from evidence-based guidelines regarding diagnosis, therapy response evaluation, prognosis, and surveillance, as well as illustrating novel therapies that have been recently investigated for PDAC, in addition to discussing the molecular profiling advances in PDAC.

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computed tomography (CT)magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)molecular profilingpancreatic cancer novel therapypancreatic cancer treatmentspancreatic ductal adenocarcinomapancreatic neoplasm

Identifiers

PMID39011469
PMCPMC11247645

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