General Inclusion Criteria
- Age ≥ 18 years old;
- Sign the informed consent form voluntarily;
- Not a patient in the intensive care unit;
2. Patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC group)
- Two or more imaging studies (ultrasound, CT, MRI) found pancreatic tumors before operation, after surgical resection, intraoperative frozen pathology and postoperative pathology were clearly diagnosed as PDAC by 2 experienced pathologists, or diagnosed as pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma by preoperative needle biopsy;
- No other treatments such as radiotherapy or chemotherapy have been taken before the operation.
3. Benign disease group (Benign group)
- Diagnosis of pancreatic intraductal papillary mucinous tumor (IPMN), mucinous cystadenoma or pancreas cyst based on clinical manifestations, clinical examinations, medical imagings (ultrasound/CT/MRI/ERCP), biopsy, and pathology
- No relevant surgical treatment;
4. Healthy donors (Healthy group)
- Healthy donors undergoing medical examinations at the above research centers;
- Healthy donors of similar age without any benign or malignant diseases.
Exclusion Criteria:
1. PDAC group:
- Patients who have undergone radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other tumor-related treatments before surgery;
- Patients with non-primary pancreatic cancer;
- Patients undergoing secondary operations;
- Infected with HIV or AIDS related diseases;
- Diagnosed as chronic or acute gastroenteritis;
- Pregnant women;
- Other situations that are not suitable for this research; 2. Benign group
(1) Patients who have undergone related surgical treatment in other hospitals; (2) Patients with a history of malignant tumors; 3. Healthy group:
- Patients with a history of tumor;
- Tumors found in medical examinations;
- History of hepatitis B or C;
- A history of acute or chronic gastroenteritis, cholecystitis, and cholangitis.