Early Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer 2024
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 129
Special Issue Editor
Interests: imaging diagnosis of early-stage pancreatic cancer, including carcinoma in situ; imaging diagnosis of biliary diseases
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Dear Colleagues,
Pancreatic cancer (PC) has a poor prognosis because the diagnosis of PC is often delayed. To improve this, early diagnosis is needed. For an early diagnosis of PC, patients with clinical manifestations suggestive of PC and at high risk for developing PC need to be selected for examination. The signs suggestive of PC, such as abdominal symptoms, DM onset, or acute pancreatitis, should not be missed, and the details regarding risk factors for PC including IPMN, chronic pancreatitis, or heredity of PC should be understood. To diagnose PC, computed tomography (MDCT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography (PET) could be selected, while the diagnostic ability of these examinations for early-stage PC is limited. Recently, endoscopic diagnostic procedures such as endoscopic ultrasonography, including fine-needle aspiration, have been widely accepted for diagnosing PC—including small PC—and endoscopic retrograde pancreatocholangiography using serial pancreatic-juice aspiration cytologic examination (SPACE) has been developed for detailed examination to diagnose earlier pancreatic cancer, including carcinoma in situ.
Dr. Masataka Kikuyama
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pancreatic cancer
- early diagnosis
- IPMN
- acute pancreatitis
- chronic pancreatitis
- DM
- heredity
- CT
- MRI
- PET
- EUS
- ERCP
- SPACE
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