A Novel Multivariate Index for Pancreatic Cancer Detection Based On the Plasma Free Amino Acid Profile.

<h4>Background</h4>The incidence of pancreatic cancer (PC) continues to increase in the world, while most patients are diagnosed with advanced stages and survive <12 months. This poor prognosis is attributable to difficulty of early detection. Here we developed and evaluated a multiva...

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Main Authors: Nobuyasu Fukutake, Makoto Ueno, Nobuyoshi Hiraoka, Kazuaki Shimada, Koichi Shiraishi, Nobuhiro Saruki, Toshifumi Ito, Minoru Yamakado, Nobukazu Ono, Akira Imaizumi, Shinya Kikuchi, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Katayama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132223