Preoperative/Neoadjuvant Therapy in Pancreatic Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Response and Resection Percentages

Gillen, Sonja; Schuster, Tibor; Meyer zum Büschenfelde, Christian; Frieß, Helmut; Kleeff, Jörg

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000267

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Preoperative/Neoadjuvant Therapy in Pancreatic Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Response and Resection Percentages

Published in PLoS Medicine • Apr 20, 2010

Authors:

Sonja Gillen

Tibor Schuster

Christian Meyer zum Büschenfelde

Abstract

BACKGROUND: 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-metastatic but local...

Subject

Medicine

Neoadjuvant therapy

Radiation therapy

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