Pancreatic Cancer Screening: Attempts and Possibilities
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Simon R Bramhall; Moustafa Mabrouk Mourad; Menna-Allah Aly; Richard P. T. Evans; Simon G Fisher; Lee Dvorkin
- Source
- Journal of Hepatology and Gastrointestinal disorders.
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
education.field_of_study
Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Age specific mortality
Population
Early detection
Malignancy
medicine.disease
Bioinformatics
Pancreatic cancer
medicine
Screening method
Screening tool
Intensive care medicine
education
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 2475-3181
Pancreatic cancer has one of the highest disease specific mortality of any malignancy, despite significant advances in diagnosis and treatment over the past decade. Currently there are no efficient screening tools available that can be recommended outside a high-risk population. Screening of high-risk populations has been suggested for early detection of curable pancreatic cancer to improve outcome. There is still however, a lack of an ideal screening method. Efficient and reliable screening methods to achieve early detection of pancreatic cancer are therefore required.