Pancreatic cancer screening is effective in individuals at risk with predisposing germline gene variants, but not in gene variant-negative familial pancreatic cancer families.
Elisabeth MaurerBettina LehmanElvira MatthäiUlrike DenzerJens FigielMoritz JesinghausEmily P SlaterUlrich StefenelliThomas M GressDetlef K BartschPublished in: United European gastroenterology journal (2024)
The diagnostic yield seems to justify PDAC screening in IAR of FPC-families with pathogenic germline variants in PDAC predisposing genes, not in IAR of variant-negative families.