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Pancreas Cancer
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Combination Chemotherapy and Surgery Improve Survival of Patients with Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer October 21, 2003 A four-drug chemotherapy regimen plus surgical resection markedly increased survival in a cancer patient group that typically has a dismal prognosis-those with pancreatic cancer that is so locally advanced it cannot be removed surgically. The regimen was tested in a small study conducted at a single cancer treatment center. The results were reported at the 2003 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons. "Our findings need to be duplicated by other investigators in other centers before people really should get excited about them," cautioned Howard Reber, MD, FACS, professor of surgery and chief of gastrointestinal surgery at the University of California Los Angeles, where the study was done. ...full article |
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