Brar, Gagandeep
Blais, Edik M.
Joseph Bender, R.
Brody, Jonathan R.
Sohal, Davendra
Madhavan, Subha
Picozzi, Vincent J.
Hendifar, Andrew E.
Chung, Vincent M.
Halverson, David
Mikhail, Sameh
Matrisian, Lynn M.
Rahib, Lola
Petricoin, Emanuel
Pishvaian, Michael J.
Article History
Received: 10 January 2019
Revised: 22 May 2019
Accepted: 5 June 2019
First Online: 11 July 2019
Competing interests
: E.M.B., J.R.B., S.M., E.P. and M.J.P. all have equity and employment with Perthera. L.M.M. and L.R. have equity and employment at the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. All other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study protocol, amendments and informed consent forms were approved by the New England Institutional Review Board (Protocol # PCT-01-012). Investigators obtained informed consent from each participant or participant’s guardian prior to enrolment. The research was conducted in accordance with recognised ethical guidelines, including the Declaration of Helsinki, CIOMS, Belmont Report and U.S. Common Rule, as described during training in Good Clinical Practice guidelines (CITI Training).
: No relevant funding was used for this project.
: Archival study data used to produce the results reported in this article can be found at Perthera and the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network’s Know Your Tumor program.
: This work is published under the standard license to publish agreement. After 12 months the work will become freely available and the license terms will switch to a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).