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Should This Patient Be Screened for Pancreatic Cancer? : Grand Rounds Discussion From Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Annals of internal medicine - 1 Dec 2020
Reynolds Eileen E, Doubeni Chyke A, Sawhney Mandeep S, Kanjee Zahir
Abstract excerpt
Because pancreatic cancer is typically advanced at the time of diagnosis, it has a very low 5-year survival rate and may become the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. A screening program to find early-stage pancreatic cancer is needed but has been challenging to develop because of the lack of an effective screening test. In 2019, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force performed an...
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