Novel discoveries targeting gemcitabine‐based chemoresistance and new therapies in pancreatic cancer: How far are we from the destination?

W Luo, G Yang, J Qiu, J Luan, Y Zhang, L You… - Cancer …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Pancreatic cancer (PC) remains one of the deadliest malignancies worldwide.
Chemoresistance is a significant clinical problem in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma …

Overcoming nucleoside analog chemoresistance of pancreatic cancer: a therapeutic challenge

SW Hung, HR Mody, R Govindarajan - Cancer letters, 2012 - Elsevier
Clinical refractoriness to nucleoside analogs (eg, gemcitabine, capecitabine) is a major
scientific problem and is one of the main reasons underlying the extremely poor prognostic …

Challenges of drug resistance in the management of pancreatic cancer

R Sheikh, N Walsh, M Clynes, R O'Connor… - Expert review of …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The current treatment of choice for metastatic pancreatic cancer involves single-agent
gemcitabine or a combination of gemcitabine with capecitabine or erlotinib (a tyrosine …

Overcoming drug resistance in pancreatic cancer

J Long, Y Zhang, X Yu, J Yang, DG LeBrun… - Expert opinion on …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Pancreatic cancer has the worst survival rate of all cancers. The current
standard care for metastatic pancreatic cancer is gemcitabine, however, the success of this …

Chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer: Emerging concepts

M Gnanamony, CS Gondi - Oncology letters, 2017 - spandidos-publications.com
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal types of cancer in the world. The incidence of
pancreatic cancer increases each year with no significant decrease in mortality. Pancreatic …

Gemcitabine resistance in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Y Binenbaum, S Na'ara, Z Gil - Drug resistance updates, 2015 - Elsevier
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) ranks fourth among cancer related deaths. The
disappointing 5-year survival rate of below 5% stems from drug resistance to all known …

Molecular and cellular mechanisms of chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer

A Adamska, O Elaskalani, A Emmanouilidi… - Advances in biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most chemoresistant
cancers, and current therapies targeting cancer-associated molecular pathways have not …

Drugs in preclinical and early-stage clinical development for pancreatic cancer

S Asuthkar, JS Rao, CS Gondi - Expert opinion on investigational …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Pancreatic cancer (PC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in
the US and Europe, and the lethality of this cancer is demonstrated by the fact that the …

Gemcitabine: a review of chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer

D Sarvepalli, MU Rashid, AU Rahman… - Critical Reviews™ in …, 2019 - dl.begellhouse.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, an exocrine tumor, is the most common type of cancer of
the pancreas and one of the top five most prominent causes of cancer-associated mortality …

Drug resistance in pancreatic cancer: New player caught in act

G Capurso, C Sette - EBioMedicine, 2019 - thelancet.com
Most human cancers display high levels of heterogeneity, a feature that often impacts
negatively on the response to treatments. Indeed, while radio and/or chemotherapy initially …