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ABO blood group and chronic pancreatitis risk in the NAPS2 cohortJulia B Greer
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Pancreas 40:1188-94. 2011..Our goal was to determine whether ABO blood group may affect the risk of chronic pancreatitis...
New developments in pancreatic cancerJulia B Greer
Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Medical Arts Building, 3708 Fifth Avenue, Fourth Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Curr Gastroenterol Rep 13:131-9. 2011..Finally, CA 19-9 levels, the presence of diabetes mellitus, and a six-gene signature provided critical information regarding survival that could help guide treatment of individuals diagnosed with pancreatic adenocarcinoma...- Inflammation and pancreatic cancer: an evidence-based reviewJulia B Greer
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Medical Arts Building, 4th Floor, Office 400 5, 3708 5th Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
Curr Opin Pharmacol 9:411-8. 2009..Each risk factor is linked by the fact that the inflammatory state significantly drives its pathology. This article will outline how inflammatory mechanisms are etiologically linked to pancreatic adenocarcinoma... - Hereditary pancreatic cancer: a clinical perspectiveJulia B Greer
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Medical Arts Building, 4th Floor, Room 400 5, 3708 5th Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Best Pract Res Clin Gastroenterol 23:159-70. 2009..Many controversies and unanswered questions in hereditary pancreatic cancer remain... - Multicenter approach to recurrent acute and chronic pancreatitis in the United States: the North American Pancreatitis Study 2 (NAPS2)David C Whitcomb
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Pancreatology 8:520-31. 2008..We developed the North American Pancreatitis Study 2 (NAPS2) to be sufficiently powered to understand the complex environmental, metabolic and genetic mechanisms underlying RAP and CP... - Association between calcium sensing receptor gene polymorphisms and chronic pancreatitis in a US population: role of serine protease inhibitor Kazal 1type and alcoholVenkata Muddana
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh PA 15213, USA
World J Gastroenterol 14:4486-91. 2008.... - Pathways to injury in chronic pancreatitis: decoding the role of the high-risk SPINK1 N34S haplotype using meta-analysisElie Aoun
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
PLoS ONE 3:e2003. 2008..We tested this hypothesis by evaluating the differences in effect size of the high risk SPINK1 N34S haplotype on CP from multiple etiologies after combining clinical reports of SPINK1 N34S frequency using meta-analysis... - Alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, and the risk of recurrent acute and chronic pancreatitisDhiraj Yadav
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 3708 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:1035-45. 2009..We examined the current prevalence of alcohol use and smoking and their association with RAP and CP in patients evaluated at US referral centers... - Pancreatic cancer patients who smoke and drink are diagnosed at younger agesRandall E Brand
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Hillman Cancer Center, 5117 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 7:1007-12. 2009.... - Serum immunoglobulin G fraction 4 levels in pancreatic cancer: elevations not associated with autoimmune pancreatitisAmit Raina
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 132:48-53. 2008..A previous Japanese study reported that serum IgG4 greater than 135 mg/dL was 97% specific and 95% sensitive in predicting autoimmune pancreatitis... - Role of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in pancreatic cancerJulia B Greer
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Presbyterian University Hospital, Mezzanine 2, C Wing, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Gut 56:601-5. 2007..We are just beginning to elucidate what these factors are... - Significant association between ABO blood group and pancreatic cancerJulia B Greer
The Institute For Transfusion Medicine, 3636 Blvd of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
World J Gastroenterol 16:5588-91. 2010..To evaluate whether the ABO blood group is related to pancreatic cancer risk in the general population of the United States... 
Genetic predisposition to pancreatic cancer: a brief reviewJulia B Greer
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Gastroenterol 102:2564-9. 2007- Pancreatitis in children and adolescentsMark E Lowe
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3755 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Curr Gastroenterol Rep 10:128-35. 2008..Improvements in diagnostic and imaging methods and growing awareness cannot account for the recent increases in the observed incidence of pediatric acute pancreatitis... - Anthropometry and the risk of epithelial ovarian cancerJulia B Greer
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Cancer 106:2247-57. 2006..Because factors such as oral contraceptive (OC), hormone therapy (HT), and parity may affect weight and hormone levels, the associations were examined in women with and without these characteristics... - Multimodality therapy for pancreatic cancerJan Franko
Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 497 Scaife Hall, 3550 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Gastroenterol Clin North Am 36:391-411, x. 2007..The future of pancreatic cancer research rests on the availability and rapid transfer of new therapies from the laboratory to clinical research...