ALKBH5 and pancreatic adenocarcinoma: To confirm the abovementioned conclusion of the relationship between upregulated ALKBH5 expression and better and prolonged survival, we next evaluated the ALKBH5 mRNA expression among patients with PAAD whose prognoses were affected by the ALKBH5 mRNA level in Gene Expression Profiling and Interactive Analyses (GEPIA, http://gepia.cancer-pku.cn/index.html) [18].