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摘要

The symptoms of pancreatic cancer are notoriously non-specific, and it is not sensible to order urgent tests for everyone with them. But those at greatest risk can be defined by using a simple score based on current cigarette smoking, current use of a proton pump inhibitor, recent diagnosis of diabetes, recent diagnosis of pancreatitis, Jewish ancestry, and ABO blood group otherthan 0 (American Journal of Epidemiology 2015, doi: 10.1093/aje/kwv026).