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Surgery and adjuvant therapy may improve survival rates in pancreatic cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, February 13th, 2007

In the largest single-institution retrospective study to date, researchers at Mayo Clinic Cancer Center have shown that giving patients both radiation and chemotherapy after completely removing invasive pancreatic cancer may improve overall survival rates.

The study's lead author, a radiation oncology resident in Rochester, Michele Corsini, MD, presented the findings at the 2007 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

The American Cancer Society reports that while the incidence of pancreatic cancer has decreased over the last few years, it remains the fourth most common cause of cancer-related death. Pancreatic cancer, which has a very poor prognosis,...

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