Phase II Clinical Trial of Nab-Paclitaxel (NAB)Plus Cisplatin (PLA) Plus Gemcitabine (GEM) (NABPLAGEM) in Patients with Untreated Advanced Pancreatic Cancer.. Phase II Clinical Trial of Nab-Paclitaxel (NAB)Plus Cisplatin (PLA) Plus Gemcitabine (GEM) (NABPLAGEM) in Patients with Untreated Advanced Pancreatic Cancer.

We applied DNA content flow cytometry to pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) biopsies. We interrogated purified sorted tumor fractions with whole genome copy number variant (CNV) and next generation sequencing (NGS) analyses. These identified a variety of somatic genomic lesions targeting genes and cellular pathways in PDAC. Of significant interest are lesions that may affect responses to therapies. Overall design: We applied DNA content based flow sorting to isolate the nuclei of clonal populations from pancreas ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) tumor samples. We coupled this strategy with oligonucleotide array CGH (aCGH) and whole genome sequencing thereby obtaining high definition genomic profiles of clonal populations from each tumor.