Abstract

Pancreatic cancer is the eighth leading cause of cancer death and is difficult to treat because clinical presentation is often late, and the disease is resistant to conventional chemotherapy. About 57% of pancreatic cancer patients are diagnosed at distant metastasis status and five-year survival rate is only 2%. More than 90% of pancreatic cancer has activating mutations in KRAS and recent exome sequencing studies have identified additional mutations in several kinds of genes such as AIRD1A, ARID1B, SMARCA1.

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