Pancreatitis and the Risk of Pancreatic Cancer
Open Access
- 20 May 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 328 (20), 1433-1437
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199305203282001
Abstract
The results of case-control studies and anecdotal reports suggest that pancreatitis may be a risk factor for pancreatic cancer, but there have been no studies of sufficient size and power to assess the magnitude of the relation between these two diseases.Keywords
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