Significant association between ABO blood group and pancreatic cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To evaluate whether the ABO blood group is related to pancreatic cancer risk in the general population of the United States.

Methods

Using the University of Pittsburgh's clinical pancreatic cancer registry, the blood donor database from our local blood bank (Central Blood Bank), and the blood product recipient database from the regional transfusion service (Centralized Transfusion Service) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, we identified 274 pancreatic cancer patients with previously determined serological ABO blood group information. The ABO blood group frequency was compared between these patients and 708 842 individual, community-based blood donors who had made donations to Pittsburgh's Central Blood Bank between 1979 and 2009.

Results

The frequency of blood group A

SUBMITTER: Greer JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2992676 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature