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Hereditary Pancreatic Cancer Syndromes.
Surgical oncology clinics of North America - 1 Oct 2015
Connor Ashton A, Gallinger Steven
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Despite decades of scientific and clinical research, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains a lethal malignancy. The clinical and pathologic features of PDAC, specifically the known environmental and genetic risk factors, are reviewed here with special emphasis on the hereditary pancreatic cancer (HPC) syndromes. For these latter conditions, strategies are described for their identification, for primary...
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