Although the percentage of CD70+ in pancreatic cell lines (20%) is close to what we observed in primary pancreatic tumours (25%), the low level CD70 expression in a pancreatic cell line (Panc-1: 10 000 CD70 receptors per cell) is not fully consistent with the expression we observed in primary pancreatic tumours (Table 2 and Figure 3A) and it may reflect the inability of monolayer cultures to faithfully reproduce the expression pattern and architecture of the primary tumour (Sipos et al, 2004; Froeling et al, 2009). The gene discussed is CD70; the disease is pancreatic neoplasm.