21-02-2024 | Cystic Fibrosis | Brief Report
Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with Cystic Fibrosis and Pancreatic Cancer: A Large Database Analysis
Authors:
Srija Manchkanti, Shiva Jashwanth Gaddam, Udhayvir Singh Grewal
Published in:
Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer
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Excerpt
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a chronic disease associated with life-limiting complications due to multiple organ damage. Advancements in diagnosis and treatment of CF have allowed improvement in overall survival over the last 3 decades [
1]. As a consequence, an increasing incidence of malignancies (particularly gastrointestinal cancers) among these patients has been noted [
2,
3]. Existing individual reports describing characteristics and outcomes of patients with CF and pancreatic cancer (PC) are limited to small case series only. …