Clinical risk factors for pancreatic cancer: protocol for an umbrella review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Identifying cancer earlier can help save lives. An increasingly popular approach to diagnosing cancer earlier is in the development of risk prediction models to be applied to the electronic healthcare record of patients. Development of these models requires systematic and thorough identification of the risk factors that might increase an individual's propensity to develop the disease. This protocol sets out the methods for an umbrella review to identify risk factors that might be included in these models. The example used is pancreatic cancer, a disease with a high percentage of late-stage diagnoses and consequent high mortality.

Methods and analysis

Relevant systematic reviews will be identified through searching of MEDLINE and EMBASE via Ovid and the Science C

SUBMITTER: Moore S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11552553 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature