Pancreatic Cancer
New Pancreatic Cancer Study Results Reported from S. Satoi et al
Published in Cancer Weekly, June 21st, 2011
2011 JUN 21 -- "The aims of this study were to verify whether the selective use of staging laparoscopy can prevent unnecessary laparotomy and to find a surrogate marker for surgical unresectability in patients with potentially or borderline resectable pancreatic cancer. Group A consisted of consecutive 33 patients evaluated between 2005 and 2006 and who directly underwent open laparotomy for planned surgical resection," investigators in Osaka, Japan report.
"Group B consisted of consecutive 61 patients evaluated between 2007 and 2009 and of whom 16 patients (26%) had a staging laparoscopy due to the presence of high-risk markers of unresectability defined...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2011-06-21)
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