Research Article
Serum Levels of Kisspeptin Are Elevated in Patients with Pancreatic Cancer
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Postoperative Kisspeptin concentrations and patients’ outcome. (a) Postoperative concentrations of Kisspeptin are similar to those measured before surgery. (b) The 50th percentile of postoperative Kisspeptin concentrations (124.55 pg/ml) is no suitable discriminator to identify patients who display long-term survival and those who did not. (c) The ideal cut-off value for postoperative Kisspeptin concentrations (103.5 pg/ml) is no significant discriminator to identify patients who display long-term survival and those who did not (). (d) The individual course of Kisspeptin levels before and after tumor resection did not reflect patients’ outcome after surgery.
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