Previously, we reported the changed profile of carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (a sum of the asialo, monosialo and disialo isoforms of transferrin, CDT for short) in pancreatic diseases, including pancreatitis of different etiologies (alcoholic and biliary) [5] and in pancreatic cancers [6]. The gene discussed is TF; the disease is familial pancreatic carcinoma.