Open AccessA Social Program for the Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer: The Kishiwada Katsuragi Project
Author(s) -
Hiroki Sakamoto,
Satoshi Harada,
Nobu Nishioka,
Kazuo Maeda,
T Kurihara,
Tateki Sakamoto,
Kazuhide Higuchi,
Masayuki Kitano,
Yoshifumi Takeyama,
Masafumi Kogire,
Masatoshi Kudo
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.987
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1423-0232
pISSN - 0030-2414
DOI - 10.1159/000481239
Subject(s) - medicine , pancreatic cancer , abdominal pain , stage (stratigraphy) , gastroenterology , cancer , paleontology , biology
The early-stage pancreatic cancer (e-PC; stage I/II) detection rate is quite low at approximately 25%. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of a social program (the Kishiwada Katsuragi project) wherein our hospital, which specializes in PC, and primary care medical offices (PMOs) used clinical findings to detect e-PC.