Pancreatic cancer (PC) is the third-leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, with an extremely low five-year survival rate of 13%. According to Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist and pancreatologist Shounak Majumder, M.D., this poor prognosis is largely attributed to the fact that most patients are diagnosed at a stage when the malignancy is either locally advanced or has distant metastasis. Dr. Majumder directs the High-Risk Pancreas Clinic, which conducts PC screening in individuals […]
Use of artificial intelligence tools and electronic health record data for pancreatic cancer risk …