Erman Akkus: Mismatch repair in pancreatic cancer

Erman Akkus posted on X about recent paper by Catherine A. O’Connor et al., titled “Lynch Syndrome and Somatic Mismatch Repair Variants in Pancreas Cancer” published on JAMA Oncology.

Authors: Catherine A. O’Connor, Emily Harrold, David Lin, Henry Walch, Andrea Gazzo, Megha Ranganathan, Sarah Kane, Fergus Keane, Joshua Schoenfeld, Drew Moss, Deborah M. Thurtle-Schmidt, Sarah P. Suehnholz, Debyani Chakravarty, Fiyinfolu Balogun, Anna Varghese, Kenneth Yu, David Kelsen, Alicia Latham, Britta Weigelt, Wungki Park, Zsofia Stadler, Eileen M. O’Reilly.

“Mismatch repair in pancreatic cancer

Although it is rare, MSI should be tested in pancreatic cancer

Median IO duration: 27.7 months, DCR: 80%.”

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Erman Akkus is a medical oncology fellow at the Ankara University, Faculty of Medicine. Previously, he was an Internal Medicine Resident at the Ankara University, Faculty of Medicine. He was also a Visiting Researcher at the University of Oslo. He completed his education from the Medical University of Vienna.