“…Evidence for this lies in the clear observations that its expression is in a tumor-specific manner. It has been reported that annexin A1 is up-regulated in hepatocellular carcinoma (de Coupade et al, 2000), bladder cancer (Cui et al, 2007), larynx cancer (Silistino-Souza et al, 2007), human breast cancer (Kang et al, 2012) and pituitary adenoma (Mulla et al, 2004), while it is absent or down-regulated in human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (Liu et al, 2003), oral squamous-cell carcinoma (Nomura et al, 2009), prostate cancers (Silistino-Souza et al, 2007) head and neck cancers (Garcia Pedrero et al, 2004), intestinal-type sinonasal adenocarcinoma (Rodrigo et al, 2011), B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (Vishwanatha et al, 2004), thyroid cancers (Petrella et al, 2006) and endometrial carcinoma (Da et al, 2001). In our study, we found that annexin A1 was significantly overexpressed in PDAC tissues by real-time RT-PCR, Western blot and immunohistochemistry, which was consistent with the early study of annexin A1 expression in pancreatic cancer (Bai et al, 2004).…”