Review of screening for pancreatic cancer in high risk individuals

作     者：Alina Stoita Ian D Penman David B Williams 

作者机构：Department of GastroenterologySt Vincent's Hospital 390 Victoria StreetDarlinghurst2010NSWAustralia Centre for Liver and Digestive DisordersRoyal Infirmary of Edinburgh51 Little France CrescentEdinburghEH16 4SAUnited Kingdom 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Gastroenterology》 (世界胃肠病学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2011年第17卷第19期

页      面：2365-2371页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Pancreatic cancer Familial cancer Cancer screening Risk factors Endoscopic ultrasound Hereditary cancer 

摘      要：Pancreatic cancer is difficult to diagnose at an early stage and is associated with a very poor *** percent of pancreatic cancers result from genetic susceptibility and/or familial *** from families with multiple affected first-degree relatives and those with a known cancer-causing genetic mutation have been shown to be at much higher risk of developing pancreatic *** efforts have focused on detecting disease at an earlier stage to improve survival in these high-risk *** article reviews high-risk groups,screening methods,and current screening programs and their results.