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Pancreatic Cancer Presenting as New-Onset Diabetes
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma has an incidence rate nearly equal to the mortality rate and is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death in the USA. This is largely due to late symptom onset and diagnosis. Evidence has emerged that new-onset diabetes may be a symptom caused by occult pancreatic ca...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3986008/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24748867 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000360812 |
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author | Patel, Ruchir Ede, Jessica Collins, Joshua Willens, David |
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description | Pancreatic adenocarcinoma has an incidence rate nearly equal to the mortality rate and is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death in the USA. This is largely due to late symptom onset and diagnosis. Evidence has emerged that new-onset diabetes may be a symptom caused by occult pancreatic cancer. We report the case of a middle-aged African American female who presented with hyperglycemia and persistent scapular tenderness. She was subsequently diagnosed with new-onset diabetes and metastatic pancreatic cancer confirmed by liver biopsy. She did not have diabetes or pre-diabetes in the 6 months prior to presentation. The following report will serve to emphasize the role of new-onset diabetes in certain patients as a warning sign necessitating further investigation for pancreatic cancer. New-onset diabetes associated with specific risk factors may prompt for early testing, detection and treatment of pancreatic cancer. |
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spelling | pubmed-39860082014-04-18 Pancreatic Cancer Presenting as New-Onset Diabetes Patel, Ruchir Ede, Jessica Collins, Joshua Willens, David Case Rep Oncol Published online: March, 2014 Pancreatic adenocarcinoma has an incidence rate nearly equal to the mortality rate and is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death in the USA. This is largely due to late symptom onset and diagnosis. Evidence has emerged that new-onset diabetes may be a symptom caused by occult pancreatic cancer. We report the case of a middle-aged African American female who presented with hyperglycemia and persistent scapular tenderness. She was subsequently diagnosed with new-onset diabetes and metastatic pancreatic cancer confirmed by liver biopsy. She did not have diabetes or pre-diabetes in the 6 months prior to presentation. The following report will serve to emphasize the role of new-onset diabetes in certain patients as a warning sign necessitating further investigation for pancreatic cancer. New-onset diabetes associated with specific risk factors may prompt for early testing, detection and treatment of pancreatic cancer. S. Karger AG 2014-03-13 /pmc/articles/PMC3986008/ /pubmed/24748867 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000360812 Text en Copyright © 2014 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions. |
spellingShingle | Published online: March, 2014 Patel, Ruchir Ede, Jessica Collins, Joshua Willens, David Pancreatic Cancer Presenting as New-Onset Diabetes |
title | Pancreatic Cancer Presenting as New-Onset Diabetes |
title_full | Pancreatic Cancer Presenting as New-Onset Diabetes |
title_fullStr | Pancreatic Cancer Presenting as New-Onset Diabetes |
title_full_unstemmed | Pancreatic Cancer Presenting as New-Onset Diabetes |
title_short | Pancreatic Cancer Presenting as New-Onset Diabetes |
title_sort | pancreatic cancer presenting as new-onset diabetes |
topic | Published online: March, 2014 |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3986008/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24748867 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000360812 |
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