Abstract:Background:
Pancreatic cancer remains the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States with a 5-year survival rate of 5%. This oppressively-low survival is owed largely to the fact that the disease is rarely diagnosed before reaching an advanced stage. The broad majority of pancreatic tumors are thought to arise from pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanINs). These may exist for many years in a patient prior to diagnosis, but there remains no reliable, non-invasive metho… Show more
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