Treatment of advanced pancreatic cancer
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Treatment of advanced and metastatic pancreatic cancer.
The majority of adenocarcinoma of the pancreas are non-resectable at diagnosis due to locally advanced or metastatic disease. There will be an estimated 28,900 new cases of pancreatic cancer diagnosed in the United States in 1998. In data collected from 1986-1993, the five year survival of all stages combined was 4%. Realizing that most patients present with advanced disease, and there are no a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Oncology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0923-7534
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mds355