Pancreatic Cancer - All About the Disease, its Diagnosis and Management
Pancreatic cancer often involves its exocrine part. It grows aggressively, and often detected late. Treatment options include surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
Pancreatic cancer often involves its exocrine part. It grows aggressively, and often detected late. Treatment options include surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
Brian Wolpin, MD, MPH, first author of the report, said that the results confirmed the presence of four risk associated SNPs that had been identified in a previous, smaller genome-wide association study (GWAS).
In addition, five new risk markers were discovered and a sixth that was of borderline statistical significance. The risks associated to each SNP or marker were largely independent and additive, so that they may have utility in future attempts to identify individuals in the general population at higher risk for pancreatic cancer.
The average lifetime risk of pancreatic cancer is 1.5%. Pancreatic cancer is a cancer that occurs in the cells lining the ducts or the islet cells of the pancreas, a digestive organ that sits in the upper abdomen surrounded by the stomach, small intestine, liver, spleen and gall bladder.
The study is published online by Nature Genetics
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