Prediagnostic serum biomarkers as early detection tools for pancreatic cancer in a large prospective cohort study.

The clinical management of pancreatic cancer is severely hampered by the absence of effective screening tools.Sixty-seven biomarkers were evaluated in prediagnostic sera obtained from cases of pancreatic cancer enrolled in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial (PLCO).The...

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Main Authors: Brian M Nolen, Randall E Brand, Denise Prosser, Liudmila Velikokhatnaya, Peter J Allen, Herbert J Zeh, William E Grizzle, Ying Huang, Aleksey Lomakin, Anna E Lokshin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3991628?pdf=render