›› 2014, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (4): 395-399.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-8640.2014.04.023

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The research development of miRNA for the early detection of pancreatic cancer

LIAN Mi1, MI Xianqiang2.   

  1. 1. School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, Shanghai University for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China;
    2. Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201210, China
  • Received:2013-11-08 Online:2014-04-30 Published:2014-06-06

Abstract:

Pancreatic cancer is a malignant tumor with poor prognosis and extremely high mortality. Its diagnosis mainly relies on clinical imaging. Current diagnostic kits for pancreatic cancer diagnosis have the disadvantages of low specificity and accuracy, which results the poor early detection and diagnosis. In recent years, molecular diagnostics has been one of newly developing clinical diagnostic means. miRNA is abnormally expressed in pancreatic cancer, and it can become a novel tumor marker. The miRNA detection technology has developed continuously. This paper aims to review the current clinical diagnosis and diagnostic markers for pancreatic cancer and explore some methods used in the early detection of miRNA for pancreatic cancer.

Key words: Pancreatic cancer, miRNA, Molecular diagnostics

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