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Cost-effectiveness of pancreatic cancer screening in familial pancreatic cancer kindreds.
Gastrointestinal endoscopy - 1 Jan 2003
Rulyak Stephen J, Kimmey Michael B, Veenstra David L, Brentnall Teresa A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Endoscopic screening of families predisposed to pancreatic cancer is increasingly used, but the cost-effectiveness of screening is unknown. METHODS: A decision analysis was used to compare one-time screening for pancreatic dysplasia with EUS to no screening in a hypothetical cohort of 100 members of familial pancreatic cancer kindreds. Abnormal EUS findings are confirmed with ERCP and patients with...
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