Tumor profiling of 431 pancreatic tumors from elderly patients

Authors:

Joanne Xiu, PhD; Kevin Rakszawski, MD; Sandeep Reddy, MD; Yuxia Jia, MD

Background

Pancreatic cancer (PC) is frequently a disease of the elderly and controversy exists as to whether these patients benefit from aggressive treatments. We aimed to investigate biomarker features from tumors taken from elderly PC patients to identify therapeutic implications. We also compared the results to those from younger patients to assess differences.

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