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Hereditary Pancreatitis in the United States: Survival and Rates of Pancreatic Cancer.
The American journal of gastroenterology - 1 Sept 2018
Shelton Celeste A, Umapathy Chandraprakash, Stello Kimberly, Yadav Dhiraj, Whitcomb David C
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OBJECTIVES: Hereditary pancreatitis (HP), an autosomal dominant disease typically caused by mutations in PRSS1, has a broad range of clinical characteristics and high cumulative risk of pancreatic cancer. We describe survival and pancreatic cancer risk in the largest HP cohort in the US. METHODS: HP probands and family members prospectively recruited from 1995 to 2013 completed medical and family history...
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