New Research Links Gallstones, Pancreatic Cancer

San Diego—Patients diagnosed with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma are more likely to have had gallstones than patients without pancreatic cancer, according to research presented at the 2022 Digestive Disease Week.

 

“Understanding this association between gallstone disease and pancreatic cancer might be a key to differential diagnosis strategies,” said Teviah Sachs, MD, MPH, the chief of the Section of Surgical Oncology at Boston Medical Center and an associate professor