Markers of pancreatic cancer: working toward early detection.

ABSTRACT: Because early detection of pancreatic cancer is the best way to cure this disease, investigators continue to try to identify accurate markers of early pancreatic cancer. Because early-stage pancreatic cancer is generally asymptomatic, the only reliable way to detect it is by targeting individuals at increased risk for pancreatic screening.

SUBMITTER: Goggins M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3079322 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature