The First Line of Defense
Primary Care Clinicians and Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer
The First Line of Defense is a 4-part podcast on how primary care clinicians can recognize symptoms and risk factors of pancreatic cancer — using rapidly developing technology, such as AI.
This podcast is for people like me. I'm a family physician.
I see patients every day in clinic, and I get people coming in with vague symptoms. And it's hard to sort through this sometimes.
So we want to help people understand how we might detect and identify pancreatic cancer much earlier than we typically have been doing.
-Dr. Jon Hallberg
The goal of this podcast is to educate an informed, but not expert, medical audience on the current state of pancreatic cancer diagnostics — and provide usable tools for clinicians to walk away better equipped to detect a potential pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
Episode 1 From Knowledge to Action: Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer in Primary Care
Episode 2 Genetic Insights: Understanding Pancreatic Cancer Risk in Primary Care
Episode 3 From Data to Diagnosis: Transforming Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer
Episode 4 A Conversation with Chris Sander on AI and the Prediction of Pancreatic Cancer
The single biggest factor that led to my survival was my general practitioner who said, ‘we need to find out what's going on here.
You know, you don't have any terrible, large symptoms, but there's something going on here and we need to get to the bottom of what it is.’
And because he did that, that's why I'm still here.
-Scott Nelson, Pancreatic Cancer Survivor
About The First Line of Defense
Kenner Family Research Fund and Entertainment 2 Affect Change have partnered to share the stories of pancreatic cancer patients, primary care physicians, leading researchers, and specialists in the field.
This is the story of how we can detect pancreatic cancer earlier and more accurately than ever before.
