Risk Factors for Pancreatic Cancer: Underlying Mechanisms and Potential Targets

• Autor principal: Guido Eibl (auth)
• Otros Autores: Mouad Edderkaoui (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Colección: Frontiers Research Topics
• Materias: Physiology; Blood type; Genetic mutations; src; Pancreatitis; stellate cells; Inflammation; KRAS; Pancreatic Cancer; diabetes; Risk factors
• Acceso en línea: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Pancreatic Cancer has been and still is one of the deadliest types of human malignancies. The annual mortality rates almost equal incidence rates making this disease virtually universally fatal. The 5-year survival of patients with pancreatic cancer is a dismal 5% or less. Therapeutic strategies are...