Genetic counselling and personalised risk assessment in the Australian pancreatic cancer screening program
Abstract Background Pancreatic cancer (PC) is an aggressive disease with a dismal 5-year survival rate. Surveillance of high-risk individuals is hoped to improve survival outcomes by detection of precursor lesions or early-stage malignancy. Methods Since 2011, a national high-risk cohort recruited t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-10-01
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| Series: | Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13053-019-0129-1 |