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Sukhwinder Kaur
Contributed equally to this work with: Sukhwinder Kaur, Subhankar Chakraborty, Michael J. Baine, Kavita Mallya
Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
Subhankar Chakraborty
Contributed equally to this work with: Sukhwinder Kaur, Subhankar Chakraborty, Michael J. Baine, Kavita Mallya
Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
Michael J. Baine
Contributed equally to this work with: Sukhwinder Kaur, Subhankar Chakraborty, Michael J. Baine, Kavita Mallya
Affiliation: Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
Kavita Mallya
Contributed equally to this work with: Sukhwinder Kaur, Subhankar Chakraborty, Michael J. Baine, Kavita Mallya
Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
Lynette M. Smith
Affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
Aaron Sasson
Affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
Randall Brand
Affiliation: Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Sushovan Guha
Affiliation: Departments of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
Maneesh Jain
Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
Uwe Wittel
Affiliation: Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Universitätsklinik Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Shailender K. Singh
Affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
Surinder K. Batra
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
Introduction
Despite decades of research, the prognosis for pancreatic cancer (PC) remains dismal, with an overall five-year survival rate of only about 5% [1]. A significant contributor to the poor prognosis of PC is the fact that the cancer often remains undiscovered until an advanced stage. Available techniques for the diagnosis of PC present several difficulties...