The ESMO World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer is the premier annual event in gastrointestinal cancer. At this year's meeting, experts from around the world convened in Barcelona, Spain from 29 June - 2 July 2016 to present, discuss, and debate the latest advances, treatment strategies, and guidelines for the treatment of gastrointestinal malignancies.

In this presentation, Dr. Pascal Hammel discusses screening in familial pancreatic cancer.

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After Charlotte lost her sister to pancreatic cancer, she was asked to return to her hometown and share her family's story at a local awareness program. Charlotte was screened for pancreatic cancer as part of the program and a cyst was found on her pancreas. She met with doctors there and later came to UCLA for surgery, where she met Dr. Reber and his team. Within 1 month from diagnosis, her cyst had grown again by the day of surgery. Since then, Charlotte has completed her last chemotherapy treatment and celebrated her 85th birthday. As Charlotte said, she is very grateful to Dr. Reber for not "throwing her away" because of her age and other medical issues. Charlotte learned about the Hirshberg Foundation and Agi Hirshberg Symposium from Dr. Reber's office. Charlotte found everything she heard at the Symposium validated what she has discovered since her diagnosis, i.e. importance of exercise, attitude, spiritual meditation, etc. Charlotte concluded saying that attitude has been very important along the way, plus all the information she has gained.