Early Pancreatic Cancer: Clinical Implications, Workup, and Imaging Findings with Histopathologic Correlation for Personalized Surveillance
A multidisciplinary approach with integrated clinical risk assessment, dedicated pancreatic imaging, endoscopic US, and targeted tissue sampling and cytologic analysis is effective for early pancreatic cancer detection, and radiologists have a critical role in identifing subtle indirect imaging findings that precede visible tumors.
Authors
- Manabu Minami (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-2924)
- Osamu Abe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1180-2629)
- Ayman H. Gaballah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2540-9246)
- Shohei Inui (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3021-4141)
- Sota Masuoka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4163-6542)
- Yudai Nakai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7664-7220)
- Wataru Gonoi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5018-4683)
- Moto Nakaya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7697-6286)
- T. Masumoto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3157-1055)
- Shintaro Kano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1432-3815)
Institutions
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
- University of Tsukuba (JP)
- Jichi Medical University (JP)
- University of Tsukuba Hospital (JP)
- Toranomon Hospital (JP)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Radiographics
- Published
- 2026-07-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1148/rg.250085
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 8.23