If you have pancreatic cancer in your family, screening may help to protect you.
Complete the information below to learn if you qualify, how pancreatic screening may help to protect you, and where it is available in your area.
Do you have a first degree relative who had pancreatic cancer? Or do you have other risk factors including a BRCA mutation, Lynch Syndrome, or a pancreatic cyst?
Most doctors recommend that adults at higher risk due to family history or the presence of associated conditions, receive screening that may help to protect them against this disease.
The largest cause of cancer death in American women in the 1950’s wasn’t breast or lung cancer. It was cervical cancer, and almost everyone in the 1950’s had a relative who died from it.
By the 1970’s however, death from cervical cancer had dropped from #1 to #14 and remains rare today. What brought about this remarkable change was the use of screening cytology (the Pap smear) to sample the cervix for still-harmless but precancerous cells. The Pap smear proved that if precancerous cells are detected and removed, cancer can be stopped before it can even start.
How does screening offer the possibility of protection?
How does screening offer the possibility of protection?
You will receive pancreatic imaging which can help to detect abnormalities that are larger than approximately one centimeter. Additionally, you may also receive screening cytology to help detect smaller cancers and still-harmless but precancerous cells.
What can I expect during screening?
What can I expect during screening?
This “Pap Smear for the Pancreas,”™ starts with 15 minutes of low intensity ultrasound (LINFU®) applied over your abdomen to loosen the pancreatic cells. A gastroenterologist (GI) then performs a standard, minimally invasive, upper endoscopy to obtain a sample of the fluid that is naturally produced by your pancreas after you have a meal. This cytology sample is then sent to the laboratory where it is examined under the microscope for the presence of precancerous or cancerous cells.
Obtaining the cytology specimen is painless, takes about a half hour, and is typically performed in a GI endoscopy outpatient setting.
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