Loss of Progesterone Receptor Expression Is an Early Tumorigenesis Event Associated with Tumor Progression and Shorter Survival in Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Patients

• Main Authors: Sung Joo Kim (Author), Soyeon An (Author), Jae Hoon Lee (Author), Joo Young Kim (Author), Ki-Byung Song (Author), Dae Wook Hwang (Author), Song Cheol Kim (Author), Eunsil Yu (Author), Seung-Mo Hong (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Korean Society of Pathologists & the Korean Society for Cytopathology, 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNETs) are the second most common pancreatic neoplasms and there is no well-elucidated biomarker to stratify their detection and prognosis. Previous studies have reported that progesterone receptor (PR) expression status was associated with poorer survi...