Open Access[Early pancreatic cancer: can the methods currently available identify this disease?].
Author(s) -
José Celso Ardengh,
Nelson Ernesto Coelho,
Alessandro Bersch Osvaldt
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
pubmed
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
pISSN - 0004-2803
DOI - 10.1590/s0004-28032008000200016
Subject(s) - medicine , disease , pancreatic cancer , pancreas , identification (biology) , adenocarcinoma , intensive care medicine , cancer , general surgery , pathology , botany , biology
Call attention of the gastroenterologists and surgeons on the patients with high risk of developing pancreatic carcinoma, and whether or not forms of surveillance and prevention of this disease, which can be applied to daily clinical practice. DATA SURVEY: It was used the database of PubMed (US National Library of Medicine), looked up the publications of recent years for the groups at risk, molecular biological testing and methods of image used in the identification of small tumors of the pancreas.