PANCREATIC DISEASE COHORT A Registry and Biospecimen Bank to Better Understand Pancreatic Disease

Inclusion Criteria

• •Individuals who have been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer or suspicion of pancreatic cancer, a pre-neoplastic lesion in the pancreas who are 18 years or older
• •Individuals identified to be high risk for developing pancreatic cancer who are 18 years or older based on the following criteria:
• •The modified clinical Bethesda criteria for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), which are as follows: individuals with 2 HNPCC-associated cancers (colon, endometrial, small bowel, hepatobiliary, pancreatic, genitourinary, or gastric), including synchronous or metachronous lesions; individuals with colon cancer and a first degree relative with an HNPCC-associated tumor and/or colonic adenoma (1 cancer diagnosed at age \<45 years and the adenoma diagnosed at age \<40 years); individuals with colon or endometrial cancer diagnosed at \<50 years; individuals with right-sided colon cancer having an undifferentiated pattern (solid/cribiform) or signet cell histopathology diagnosed at \<45 years; or individuals with adenomas diagnosed at \<40 years.
• •Those with a personal or family history of other pancreatic cancer associated syndromes including: Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, familial pancreatic cancer syndrome, familial breast cancer syndrome associated with BReast CAncer genes 1 or 2 (BRCA-2 or BRCA-1), hereditary pancreatitis, familial atypical multiple mole melanoma, and others.
• •Patients in a family with a genetically determined cancer predisposition syndrome.
• •Patients with a personal history of a gastrointestinal malignancy at age \<45 years.
• •Individuals at high-risk based on personal or family history, but not related to a known pancreatic cancer syndrome include the following: those with a personal history of pancreatic cancer, or a pre-neoplastic pancreatic lesion; those with a family history of two or more individuals with cancer, at least one of which is reported to be a gastrointestinal malignancy; a history of early onset (\<50 years) gastrointestinal cancer in the individual or a family member; a history of multiple primary cancers, at least one of which is a gastrointestinal primary, or a family member of an individual meeting this criterion.