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Review
. 2003 Jun;124(7):1958-64.
doi: 10.1016/s0016-5085(03)00389-5.

A "catastrophic hypothesis" for pancreas cancer progression

Francisco X Real  1
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A "catastrophic hypothesis" for pancreas cancer progression

Francisco X Real. Gastroenterology. 2003 Jun.

Abstract

Exocrine pancreas cancer has a dismal prognosis. The precise reasons accounting for its biological and clinical behavior are not known. A "catastrophe" takes place in the course of pancreas cancer development/progression so that, once it occurs, the evolution of the tumor is very rapid, leading to local invasion and metastasis. Up to now, such behavior cannot be conclusively ascribed to a single molecular event. If correct, this hypothesis has important implications regarding pancreas cancer research. Further work is warranted to examine this hypothesis and to identify the putative "catastrophic" elements participating in this tumor.

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    Grizzi F, Russo C, Portinaro N, Hermonat PL, Chiriva-Internati M. Grizzi F, et al. Gastroenterology. 2004 Feb;126(2):630-1; author reply 631-2. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2003.12.033. Gastroenterology. 2004. PMID: 14765401 No abstract available.

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