Professor George Barreto
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Yes, that was an interesting finding.
It's certainly a concern.
And it doesn't mean that it wasn't a problem when it was affecting low socioeconomic status.
It's just it's demonstrating a change in the picture.
And we need to understand why, because there is an opportunity for us to intervene and potentially change that course for the better.
So I have a special interest in early onset cancers and we have in fact studied pancreatic cancer in this cohort as well.
Literature has suggested that there were two potential links.
One is that acute pancreatitis is a presenting symptom of pancreatic cancer and
But then there was this other finding that I could never reconcile, that acute pancreatitis was potentially a cause for pancreatic cancer.
And I could never explain it, nor could anyone else.
But when we looked at our own data, what we find is that the minute we take out patients with chronic pancreatitis, which is a known risk factor for pancreatic cancer,
the risk of acute pancreatitis disappears.
And so what our data shows quite clearly is that acute pancreatitis is a presenting symptom of pancreatic cancer, albeit in a very low rate.
It's just 1.2 to 1.3%.
So it's quite low.
These are undoubtedly the most straightforward things that are within people's control.
The other factors like abnormalities in the development of the pancreas or calcium levels in the blood or autoimmune disease, that's totally out of someone's control.
To what extent do the statistics in South Australia match the rest of Australia?
It's at the level of the rest of Australia.
When we compare it to the Scandinavians, we are way higher.
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