Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic Cancer
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DOI:
10.1097/sla.0000000000006168
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发表时间:
2024-12-01
影响因子:
9
通讯作者:
Yu,Xianjun
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作者:
Zhu,Xinzhe;Xiao,Zhiwen;Yu,Xianjun
Objective:To examine the characteristics of patients with pancreatic cancer with long-term survival.Background:Although pancreatic cancer is a highly lethal malignancy, a minority of patients experience long-term survival. The characteristics of these patients remain largely unidentified.Methods:An indolent subgroup was established using carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9), which is the best-validated biomarker for pancreatic cancer. Of 1558 patients, 13.9% were included in the CA19-9–normal (≤ 37 U/mL) subgroup.Results:A normal CA19-9 level was an independent variable for overall survival (median survival, 18.1 vs 9.7 months, hazard ratio= 0.53, P< 0.001). The 5-year survival of patients with stage IV CA19-9–normal cancer was higher than that of patients with stage I-IV CA19-9-high cancer (22.4% vs 6.8%, P= 0.034). The CA19-9–normal subgroup exhibited reduced levels of circulating glucose (P< 0.001) and increased expression of insulin (P< 0.001) compared with the CA19-9-high subgroup. Glucose was a substrate for CA19-9 biosynthesis through the hexosamine biosynthesis pathway. In addition, in pancreatic cancer animal models of diabetes, glucose control decreased CA19-9 levels and improved overall survival. In a clinical trial (NCT05306028) of patients before undergoing major anticancer treatments, glucose control decreased CA19-9 levels in 90.9% of the patients.Conclusions:CA19-9–normal pancreatic cancer is a strikingly indolent subgroup with low glucose and high insulin. Glucose control is a promising therapeutic strategy for pancreatic cancer.