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"PancPro" as a tool for selecting families eligible for pancreatic cancer screening: an Italian study of incident cases.
Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver - 1 Jul 2012
Leonardi Giulia, Marchi Santino, Falconi Massimo, Zerbi Alessandro, Ussia Valeria, de Bortoli Nicola, Mosca Franco, Presciuttini Silvano, Del Chiaro Marco
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: PancPRO is a computer program that estimates the risk of pancreatic cancer for asymptomatic individuals based on a genetic model of susceptibility and the familial incidence of cancer. AIM: To evaluate the distribution of the familial risk in a series of incident cases of pancreatic adenocarcinoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The lifetime risk of pancreatic cancer was calculated by PancPro for a...
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