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Stephen Pandol1, Anna Gukovskaya, Mouad Edderkaoui, Mouad Edderkoui, David Dawson, Guido Eibl, Aurelia Lugea.
Abstract
There are approximately 277,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer and 266,000 deaths from pancreatic cancer annually, indicating a mortality rate of 96% of the cases diagnosed. Because of the ineffectiveness of therapies, a major emphasis needs to be placed on prevention. This paper reviews the epidemiology and risk factors for pancreatic cancer, and uses this information to propose plausible research directions for determining the biological mechanisms mediating the effects of risk factors on the promotion of pancreatic cancer, with a focus on the pancreatic stellate cell.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22320930 PMCID: PMC3736749 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.2011.07013.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Gastroenterol Hepatol ISSN: 0815-9319 Impact factor: 4.029