Risk of Cancer in Patients With Autoimmune Pancreatitis

2013253 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Masahiro Shiokawa · Kyoto University

Yuzo Kodama · Kyoto University

Kenichi Yoshimura · Kyoto University Hospital

Chiharu Kawanami · Otsu Red Cross Hospital

Jun Mimura · Kobe Medical Center

Yukitaka Yamashita · Japanese Red Cross Society Wakayama Medical Center

Masanori Asada ·

Abstract

Patients with AIP are at high risk of having various cancers. The highest risk for cancer in the first year after AIP diagnosis and absence of AIP relapse after successful treatment of the coexisting cancers suggest that AIP may develop as a paraneoplastic syndrome in some patients.

Topics & Keywords

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: The American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volume 108, Issue 4, pp. 610-617

DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2012.465

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