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Management strategies for patients with hereditary pancreatic cancer.
Current treatment options in oncology - 1 Sept 2005
Brentnall Teresa A
Abstract excerpt
It is likely that hereditary factors play a role in 17% or more of pancreatic cancers. Ten percent of patients have a familial history that causes disease. Another 7% have a history of apparently "sporadic" pancreatic cancer patients carry a genetic mutation that causes the disease. Kindreds, with two or more family members who have been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and who are first-degree relatives, are...
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