Background and Aims: Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) is a safe and accurate technique for diagnosing pancreatic cancer. The value of repeat EUS-FNA in patients with ...

Research suggests that EUS is an effective tool for diagnosing pancreatic cancer, with reports of 87–100% of EUS tests providing accurate diagnoses of this disease. Additionally, endoscopy is ...

Certain types of endoscopies, like endoscopic ultrasounds, are commonly used to detect pancreatic cancer. But pancreatic cancer can be hard to spot in its early stages, even with imaging tests.

Pancreatic cancer is rare but life-threatening At the same time it can be asymptomatic in the early stages making it difficult to detect and treat on time Here’s what a doctor ... (EUS): This ...

Pancreatic cancer can be difficult to detect. Symptoms often don’t show until later stages, and there aren’t standard screening tests for this type of cancer. Abdominal and endoscopic ...

According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), for individuals with a high familial risk of pancreatic cancer, early detection tests like Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) or MRI/magnetic resonance ...

Of these 514 patients, 24 (4.67%) had repeat FNAs, of whom 21 had EUS-FNA repeated twice and three patients had EUS-FNA repeated three times for the suspicion of pancreatic cancer.