Tokyo, May 27 -- UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) received information related to the study (UMIN000061420) titled 'National Retrospective Survey on the Prevalence of Fatty Pancreas in Patients with Pancreatic Cancer' on May 27.
Study Type:
Observational
Primary Sponsor:
Institute - Wakayama Medical University
Condition:
Condition - Pancreatic cancer, Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor
Classification by malignancy - Malignancy
Genomic information - NO
Objective:
Narrative objectives1 - Fatty pancreas (diffuse pancreatic steatosis) may induce intra-pancreatic inflammation and predispose to pancreatic cancer. The primary aim is to determine the prevalence (proportion) of fatty pancreas among patients with pancreatic cancer. Secondar...