Lumír Kunovsky: Exploring the association between acute pancreatitis and biliary tract cancer

Quoting Lumír Kunovsky, Gastroenterologist at Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute (MMCI), on X/Twitter:

”Exploring the association between acute pancreatitis and biliary tract cancer.

• Swedish pancreatitis cohort. 
• SwePan.

Only in UEGJournal.

Patients with acute pancreatitis had a higher occurrence of early-stage biliary tract cancer within 2 years of hospital discharge than controls (13.0 vs. 3.6%; p<0.01).

Cumulative hazard function of biliary tract cancer comparing individuals with acute pancreatitis and the matched pancreatitis-free population.”

Source: Lumír Kunovsky/X