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Hereditary pancreatitis and pancreatic carcinoma.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 30 Jun 1999
Whitcomb D C, Applebaum S, Martin S P
Abstract excerpt
Few risk factors for pancreatic cancer have emerged except for chronic pancreatitis. Recently, hereditary pancreatitis was estimated to carry a standardized incidence ratio of 53, a risk about 25 times higher than smoking. A review of the ongoing hereditary pancreatitis study of the Midwest Multicenter Pancreatic Study Group suggests that the risk of pancreatic cancer is related to long-standing pancreatitis...
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