Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Pancreatic Tumor Registry

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Purpose

There are unknown factors in our environment and in people’s genes that raise the risk of getting pancreatic cancer. To learn about these things, researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center created a Pancreatic Tumor Registry. This registry includes people with pancreatic cancer, and also people who have a strong family history of this disease.

In this project, researchers are:

• Making a registry of people at high risk for getting pancreatic cancer.
• Studying lifestyle and exposures to things that could be linked to pancreatic cancer.
• Learning if it is possible to monitor people with a higher risk for pancreatic cancer. We examine them regularly with imaging tests to see if they develop pancreatic cancer or precancer.
• Collecting blood and saliva from people with pancreatic cancer and their family members. We hope to find genetic factors linked to this disease.

Contact

For more information and to see if you can join this study, please use our online form. We will ask you about your family’s history with pancreatic cancer. Once we get the form, we will contact you to let you know if you can join the study.