Pancreatic Cancer
Cytologic grade predicted survival of patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Published in Cancer Weekly, December 27th, 2005
"Our objectives were to devise a cytologic grading system and determine whether it would predict survival of patients with solid-type pancreatic adenocarcinoma. We evaluated 116 consecutive patients from July 2000 to November 2002: they were followed up until September 2003," scientists in the United States reported.
"We scored the following features on rapid Romanowsky-stained endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration smears: cell group architecture, single cells, nuclear grade, mucus, bizarre cells, and necrosis. A cytologic grade (low vs high)...
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