Early Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer

Dear Colleagues,

Pancreatic cancer (PC) has a poor prognosis, because the diagnosis of PC is delayed. To improve the poor prognosis, early diagnosis is needed. For early diagnosis of PC, patients with clinical manifestations suggestive of PC and high risks for developing PC need to be selected for examination for PC. The signs suggestive of PC, such as abdominal symptoms, DM onset, or acute pancreatitis should not be missed, and the detail of risks for PC including IPMN, chronic pancreatitis, or heredity of PC should be understood. For diagnosing PC, computed tomography (MDCT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography (PET) could be selected, while the diagnostic ability of these examinations for early stage PC is limited. Recently, endoscopic diagnostic procedures, such as endoscopic ultrasonography, including fine-needle aspiration has been widely accepted for diagnosing PC, including small PC, and endoscopic retrograde pancreatocholangiography using serial pancreatic-juice aspiration cytologic examination (SPACE) has been developed for a detailed examination to diagnose earlier pancreatic cancer, including carcinoma in situ.

Dr. Masataka Kikuyama
Prof. Masayuki Kitano
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Diagnostics is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.