New diabetes after 50 plus weight loss triggers a pancreatic cancer check
About one in a hundred people who develop diabetes after 50, more if they are losing weight, have pancreatic cancer. A simple score could send them for a scan or blood test.
The ENDPAC score (Mayo Clinic) uses age, weight change, and glucose trajectory to enrich pancreatic cancer risk to roughly 3-4% in new-onset diabetes. Propose an automated EHR alert plus imaging or a CA19-9/methylation blood test for ENDPAC-high patients, evaluated in a pragmatic randomised trial.
- Most lethal cancers are found late · Screening exists for only a few cancers. Pancreatic, ovarian, liver, oesophageal and most lung cancers are found when cure is unlikely.
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