Article ; Online ; Conference proceedings: Therapeutic tools in pancreatic cancer.
2009 Volume 10, Issue 2, Page(s) 118–122
Abstract: ... with the prognostic and therapeutic tools available are important to make a worthy impact on a patient's course ... outcome of patients with ascites (Abstract #220). Validated clinical tools that can assist in managing ... Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States and has a lower ...
Abstract | Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States and has a lower survival rate than other digestive tract tumors. It remains a therapeutic challenge with limited active agents. Honing our current understanding of markers of toxicity and response, and individualizing treatment with the prognostic and therapeutic tools available are important to make a worthy impact on a patient's course. The authors summarize selected abstracts from the ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, San Francisco, CA, USA, January 15-17, 2009. The Symposium featured pancreatic cancer in 84 research abstracts, of which, seven are reviewed that focus on markers of toxicity: cytidine deaminase (Abstract #151) and haptogloin (Abstract #167) as markers of gemcitabine toxicity; markers of response: use of PET scan for prognosis (Abstract #157), and correlations with CA 19-9 to post-chemo-radiation resectability (Abstract #215) and time to progression (Abstract #160); and individualized applications: characterizing the phenotypic similarities between a patient tumor and the direct xenograft (Abstract #154) and a report about the poor outcome of patients with ascites (Abstract #220). Validated clinical tools that can assist in managing patients through the narrow therapeutic window are needed. |
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MeSH term(s) | Biomarkers, Tumor/blood ; CA-19-9 Antigen/blood ; Combined Modality Therapy ; Deoxycytidine/adverse effects ; Deoxycytidine/analogs & derivatives ; Deoxycytidine/therapeutic use ; Haptoglobins/analysis ; Humans ; Pancreas/diagnostic imaging ; Pancreatic Neoplasms/blood ; Pancreatic Neoplasms/diagnosis ; Pancreatic Neoplasms/therapy ; Positron-Emission Tomography ; Prognosis ; Sensitivity and Specificity |
Chemical Substances | Biomarkers, Tumor ; CA-19-9 Antigen ; Haptoglobins ; Deoxycytidine (0W860991D6) ; gemcitabine (B76N6SBZ8R) |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2009-03-09 |
Publishing country | Italy |
Document type | Congresses |
ZDB-ID | 2039637-5 |
ISSN | 1590-8577 ; 1590-8577 |
ISSN (online) | 1590-8577 |
ISSN | 1590-8577 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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