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Apr 8, 2024, 22:48
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
