Chronic Pancreatitis: A Risk Factor for Cancer?

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Benign disease, chronic inflammation, and cancer: evidence from other organs Chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer: descriptive data Chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer: is there a link? Uncommon types of pancreatitis Risk factors for developing pancreatic cancer after chronic pancreatitis From pancreatitis to pancreatic cancer: defining the pathways Chronic pancreatitis and development of nonpancreatic cancer Screening issues Acknowledgments References