4.2.5 Emerging therapies

A number of emerging therapies are being investigated for pancreatic cancer. Areas of interest for emerging therapies include identifying molecular targets, targeting cancer stem cells and stromal modulation, immunotherapies such as cancer vaccines, adoptive cell therapy and stemness inhibitors (Amanam & Chung 2018; Lambert et al. 2019).

The key principle for precision medicine is prompt and clinically oriented communication and coordination with an accredited laboratory and pathologist. Tissue analysis is integral for access to emerging therapies and, as such, tissue specimens should be treated carefully to enable additional histopathological or molecular diagnostic tests in certain scenarios.