Can we screen for pancreatic cancer? Identifying a sub-population of patients at high risk of subsequent diagnosis using machine learning techniques applied to primary care data

• Ananya Malhotra ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Ananya.Malhotra@lshtm.ac.uk

  Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, Inequalities in Cancer Outcomes Network, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0691-0705

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• Bernard Rachet,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, Inequalities in Cancer Outcomes Network, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Audrey Bonaventure,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epidemiology of Childhood and Adolescent Cancers Team, CRESS, Université de Paris-INSERM, Villejuif, France

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• Stephen P. Pereira,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Laura M. Woods

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, Inequalities in Cancer Outcomes Network, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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