Adjuvant therapy for pancreatic cancer
โ Scribed by Harold O. Douglass
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 646 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-2313
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## Abstract Pancreatic cancer is uniformly fatal unless it can be surgically resected. Survival rates for the 15% to 20% of patients who have resectable disease, however, are a disappointing 10% to 30%, depending on the status of margins and surrounding lymph nodes. In the midโ1980s, a landmark stu
Pancreatic cancer remains a major cause of mortality. Less than 5% of patients survive 5 years. No curative therapy exists for patients not surgically resectable. Although chemotherapeutic and radiation therapeutic approaches can provide palliation, they have not had a significant impact on 5-year s