Do variants associated with susceptibility to pancreatic cancer and melanoma reciprocally affect risk?
Reported variants of melanoma genes and pathways do not play a role in pancreatic cancer predisposition. Reciprocally, pancreatic cancer susceptibility variants are not associated with melanoma risk.
Preoperative assessment of body fat distribution by a CT scan, as a surrogate for fatty pancreas infiltration, can help to predict the occurrence of clinically significant PF after PD.