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@lightandhope

Thank you so much again for the informative post. Unfortunately my partner's dad passed away recently after almost 3 years post PC dx. We will be on top of this even though my is partner young- just shy of 40. I like your suggestion on having baseline bloodwork numbers as early as possible. He already has started getting imaging of pancreas done once every two years.

While I see a lot of info on the outcomes of typical late stage detection of PC that contributes to its viciousness, I don't see much info on outcomes of those at high-risk who started surveillance earlier with no evidence of disease and with no symptoms, like my partner, due to reasons such as genetic markers, fam history and such.

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Hi @lightandhope ,

Does this study address what you were looking for regarding outcomes from early screening?

Abstract: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29803839/
"Conclusions: In a long-term (16-year) follow-up study of individuals at high-risk for PDAC, we found most PDACs detected during surveillance (9/10) to be resectable, and 85% of these patients survived for 3 years. "

Full paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6120797/
Table 2 in this paper is interesting -- seems to show a lot of long-term survivors.