Tetsuya Takikawa, Kazuhiro Kikuta, Takanori Sano, Tsukasa Ikeura, Nao Fujimori, Takeji Umemura, Itaru Naitoh, Hiroshi Nakase, Hiroyuki Isayama, Atsushi Kanno, Ken Kamata, Yuzo Kodama, Dai Inoue, Akio Ido, Toshiharu Ueki, Hiroshi Seno, Hiroaki Yasuda, Eisuke Iwasaki, Takayoshi Nishino, Kensuke Kubota, Toshihiko Arizumi, Atsushi Tanaka, Kazushige Uchida, Ryotaro Matsumoto, Shin Hamada, Seiji Nakamura, Kazuichi Okazaki, Yoshifumi Takeyama, Atsushi Masamune
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: The association between autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) and pancreatic cancer (PC) remains controversial. This study aimed to clarify the long-term prognosis and risk of malignancies in AIP patients in Japan. METHODS: We conducted a multicenter retrospective cohort study on 1364 patients with type 1 AIP from 20 institutions in Japan. We calculated the standardized incidence ratio (SIR) for malignancies compared to that in the general population...
January 19, 2024: Pancreatology: Official Journal of the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP) ... [et Al.]