The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy recently released new clinical guidance on the screening for pancreatic cancer in people with genetic susceptibility (Gastrointest Endosc 2022 Feb 16. doi:10.1016/j.gie.2021.12.001). GEN’s Sarah Tilyou spoke with lead author Mandeep S. Sawhney, MD, MS, FASGE, a gastroenterologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, in Boston, about the impetus for the guidelines and what they mean to GI practice.
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