We need to have a better way to identify patients with early pancreatic cancer, so we wanted to understand what are the characteristics of people in our study and other populations that help narrow down who are the high-risk populations. Wendy Setiawan More Quotes by Wendy Setiawan More Quotes From Wendy Setiawan If you really look at the type of Type 2 diabetes that pancreatic cancer patients have, the majority of those diabetes are diagnosed very, very close to the time of the cancer diagnosis, so people with recent-onset diabetes -- which we defined as within 36 months from pancreatic cancer diagnosis -- are at much higher risk for pancreatic cancer. Wendy Setiawan top-news