Surveillance in individuals at high risk of pancreatic cancer: Too early to tell?

Gut

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1005-1006

  Harinck, Femme ^a   Canto, Marcia Irene ^b   Schulick, Richard ^b   Goggins, Michael ^b   Poley, Jan Werner ^a   Fockens, Paul ^c   Kluijt, Irma ^d   Bruno, Marco ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A;

CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MENTAL STRESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 77953985257     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2009.197004     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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3. Poley JW, Kluijt I, Gouma DJ, et al. The yield of first-time endoscopic ultrasonography in screening individuals at a high risk of developing pancreatic cancer. Am J Gastroenterol 2009;104:2175-81.