Preoperative/neoadjuvant therapy in pancreatic cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of response and resection percentages.

<h4>Background</h4>Pancreatic cancer has an extremely poor prognosis and prolonged survival is achieved only by resection with macroscopic tumor clearance. There is a strong rationale for a neoadjuvant approach, since a relevant percentage of pancreatic cancer patients present with non-m...

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Main Authors: Sonja Gillen, Tibor Schuster, Christian Meyer Zum Büschenfelde, Helmut Friess, Jörg Kleeff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-04-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000267
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