Current status and challenges in pancreatic cancer surveillance for chronic pancreatitis

Key Points

• To explore the current challenges in pancreatic cancer surveillance related to chronic pancreatitis.
• Review of existing imaging techniques for diagnosing pancreatic conditions
• Analysis of differential diagnoses including mass-forming and autoimmune pancreatitis
• Discussion on the limitations in surveillance effectiveness for chronic pancreatitis
• Identified chronic inflammation and fibrosis complicate imaging diagnoses
• Highlighted the difficulties in distinguishing pancreatic cancer from mass-forming pancreatitis
• Noted the absence of established surveillance methods for pancreatic cancer in chronic pancreatitis cases