SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) – Five sisters with a family history of pancreatic cancer were among the first people to enroll in a Sarasota Memorial Hospital study evaluating a new screening technology designed to detect pancreatic abnormalities before they become cancer.
The sisters traveled together from south Florida to SMH’s Kolschowsky Research and Education Institute in Sarasota to take part in the study. The technology, called LINFU, or Low-Intensity Non-Focused Ultrasound, is being studied as a possible screening tool for people considered high risk for pancreatic cancer who do not have signs or symptoms of the disease.
Their father died of pancreatic cancer 10 years ago at age 76. Since then, they have worried about whether the disease could affect them or their children…