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Surgery is a viable treatment for pancreatic cancer patients especially after chemotherapy – EurekAlert
Patients with stage II pancreatic cancer who are treated with chemotherapy followed by resection (an operation that removes the cancerous part of the organ, structure…
Key takeaways
- Surgery is an underused treatment for certain pancreatic cancer patients.
- Patients with pancreatic cancer who underwent surgery after chemotherapy lived nearly twice as long as those treated with only chemotherapy.
- Findings confirms current recommendations for stage II pancreatic cancer: survival improves when patients receive multimodality therapy, chemotherapy before and/or after surgery.
- All analyses of the data delivered the same findings.
CHICAGO (March 26, 2021, 9:00 am CDT): Patients…
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