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Pancreatic cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality. Treatment has limited efficacy, and 5-year survival rates remain less than 5%. Insights from epidemiology and discoveries in molecular genetics have laid the groundwork for a rational screening strategy for high-risk individuals. High-risk populations include those in their 6th to 8th decades of life, those with a family history of pancreatic cancer, and those with a personal history of tobacco smoking. Roughly 10% of cases are due to an inherited genetic susceptibility. Several familial syndromes with known genetic defects have been implicated, but the majority of familial cases result from as yet undefined genes. Acquired mutations have been identified in the oncogenes K-ras and HER2/neu, and in the tumor suppressor genes p16, p53, SMAD4, and BRCA2. No standard for screening or prevention exists, but strategies employing endoscopic, radiologic, and molecular methods to screen high-risk individuals are under investigation.
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PMID:Pancreatic cancer: epidemiology, genetics, and approaches to screening. 1252 Jun 39

Histopathologic grading of dysplasia in Barrett esophagus (BE) shows substantial interobserver and intraobserver variation. We used immunohistochemical analysis with a set of tumor cell markers, ie, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), ERBB2 (HER2/neu), MYC, CDKN2A (p16), SMAD4, MET, CCND1 (cyclin D1), CTNNB1 (beta-catenin), and TP53 (p53), in histologic sections of endoscopic biopsies of 86 patients with BE in various stages of neoplastic progression. The markers, except SMAD4, were scored as 0 (<1% of cells stained), 1 (1%-25%), 2 (26%-50%), or 3 (>50%). All markers, except EGFR, showed a significant trend for immunohistochemical protein overexpression during malignant progression in BE (P <.01). When the successive stages along the metaplasia-low-grade dysplasia (LGD)-high-grade dysplasia (HGD)-adenocarcinoma axis were compared, protein overexpression of beta-catenin separated LGD from metaplasia, whereas protein overexpression of cyclin D1 and p53 discriminated HGD from LGD (all P <.001). beta-Catenin can be helpful for a diagnosis of LGD in BE, although it stains positively in a subset only, whereas p53 remains an appropriate marker to define HGD. In case of doubt, cyclin D1 can be added to separate LGD from HGD in BE.
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PMID:Immunohistochemical evaluation of a panel of tumor cell markers during malignant progression in Barrett esophagus. 1885 67