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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 28.
Published in final edited form as: Prog Mol Biol Transl Sci. 2016 Oct 15;144:241–275. doi: 10.1016/bs.pmbts.2016.09.008

Figure 1. Disease Progression Model of Pancreatic Cancer.

Figure 1.

Pancreatic cancer arises from two histological types of precursor lesions: PanINs and IPMNs. Through progressive stages of pathogenesis, molecular changes occur, leading to increasing degrees of nuclear and cytoskeletal abnormalities. Genetic alterations commonly observed in these lesions are indicated with respect to the stages in which they most often occur.