Blockade of leukemia inhibitory factor as a therapeutic approach to KRAS driven pancreatic cancer

KRAS mutations are frequent in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, leading to bad prognosis and resistance to targeted therapies. Here, the authors show that LIF expression is specifically induced by KRAS and constitutes a potential target to treat these KRAS-mutated cancers.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Man-Tzu Wang, Nicole Fer, Jacqueline Galeas, Eric A. Collisson, Sung Eun Kim, Jeremy Sharib, Frank McCormick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11044-9