Reply to S. Raoof

Mohamad Dbouk¹, Bryson W Katona¹, Randall E Brand¹+7

• ¹Mohamad Dbouk, MD, Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD; Bryson W. Katona, MD, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA; Randall E. Brand, MD, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA; Amitabh Chak, MD, Division of Gastroenterology and Liver Disease, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; Sapna Syngal, MD, Cancer Genetics and Prevention Division, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; James J. Farrell, MD, Yale Center for Pancreatic Disease, Section of Digestive Disease, Yale University, New Haven, CT; Fay Kastrinos, MD, Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY; Elena M. Stoffel, MD, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Marcia Irene Canto, MD, Department of Oncology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, Department of Medicine, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD; and Michael Goggins, MB, MD, Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, Department of Oncology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, Department of Medicine, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD.