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Can our experience with surveillance for inherited pancreatic cancer help to identify early pancreatic cancer in the general population?
Familial cancer - 1 Aug 2024
Löhr J-Matthias, Öhlund Daniel, Söreskog Emma, Andersson Emil, Vujasinovic Miroslav, Zethraeus Niklas, Sund Malin
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Screening of the general population for cancer is a matter of primary prevention reducing the burden of disease. Whilst this is successful for several cancers including breast, colon and prostate, the situation to screen and hence prevent pancreatic cancer is different. The organ is not as accessible to simple physical exam or biological samples (fecal or blood test). Neither exists a blood test such as PSA that...
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