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Screening for pancreatic cancer in high-risk individuals: a call for endoscopic ultrasound.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 15 Mar 2009
Larghi Alberto, Verna Elizabeth C, Lecca Piera Giuseppina, Costamagna Guido
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Pancreatic cancer has a dismal prognosis, and early detection through screening is likely to be our best hope to improve survival. The relatively low incidence of pancreatic cancer and the insensitive screening techniques available currently render this approach prohibitively expensive and inefficient in the general population. Screening has begun, however, in the subset of patients at the highest risk of...
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