Prospective Screening for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma in High-Risk Individuals
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · NCT06122896
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Key facts
- Compensation
- Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
- Who can join
- Ages 18+ · All sexes
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Study type
- Interventional · Early Phase 1
- Target enrollment
- 5000
- US sites recruiting
- 1
- Study start
- November 21, 2023
- Record last updated
- May 29, 2026
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What the study is about
The purpose of this research is to see if adding blood-based tests and symptom review to standard-of-care pancreatic cancer screening procedures can identify cancer early among individuals with increased risk.
Being studied: Screening Blood Tests; Endoscopic Ultrasound; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography
Conditions: Pancreatic Cancer; Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma; PDAC; PDAC - Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma; Pancreatic Neoplasm
Eligibility criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Participants must meet any of the following:
- Individuals with pathogenic/likely pathogenic germline variants in STK11, and age ≥30 years.
- Individuals with pathogenic/likely pathogenic germline variants in CDKN2A, and age ≥40 years (or 10 years younger than the earliest exocrine pancreatic cancer diagnosis in the family, whichever is earlier).
- Individuals with pathogenic/likely pathogenic germline variants in one of the other pancreatic cancer susceptibility genes (ATM, BRCA1, BRCA2, MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, EPCAM, PALB2, TP53), and age ≥50 years (or 10 years younger than the earliest exocrine pancreatic cancer diagnosis in the family, whichever is earlier) AND
- Exocrine pancreatic cancer in ≥1 first- or second-degree relative from the same side of (or presumed to be from the same side of) the family as the identified pathogenic/likely pathogenic germline variant.
- Individuals with pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants in PRSS1 AND a clinical phenotype consistent with hereditary pancreatitis, and age ≥40 years (or 20 years after onset of pancreatitis, whichever is earlier).
- Individuals with familial pancreatic cancer including:
- Family history of exocrine pancreatic cancer in ≥2 first-degree relatives from the same side of the family, even in the absence of a known pathogenic/likely pathogenic germline variant, OR
- Family history of exocrine pancreatic cancer in 1 affected first-degree relative and 1 second-degree relative, even in the absence of a known pathogenic/likely pathogenic germline variant, OR
- Family history of exocrine pancreatic cancer in ≥3 first- and/or second-degree relatives from the same side of the family, even in the absence of a known pathogenic/likely pathogenic germline variant.
- Individuals who are undergoing clinically recommended pancreatic cancer surveillance.
Exclusion Criteria
- Individuals with active or prior pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma diagnosis.
- Individuals with any active metastatic cancer.
- Individuals who are unable to give informed consent.
- Individuals who are under the age of 18 (infants, children, teenagers).
- Individuals unable to tolerate Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography and Endoscopic Ultrasound.
- Pregnant women are unlikely to be undergoing screening procedures and will not be considered eligible but can consent to the study at a later date.
Recruiting US locations
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA 02215
Site contact: Matthew Yurgelun, MD · 617-582-8673 · matthew_yurgelun@dfci.harvard.edu
Study contacts (from the official record)
- Matthew Yurgelun, MD · 617-582-8673 · matthew_yurgelun@dfci.harvard.edu
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