Neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy with gemcitabine/cisplatin and surgery versus immediate surgery in resectable pancreatic cancer

Golcher, Henriette; Brunner, Thomas; Witzigmann, Helmut; Marti, Lukas; O. Bechstein, Wolf; J. Bruns, Christiane; Jungnickel, Henry; Schreiber, Stefan; G. Grabenbauer, Gerhard; Meyer, Thomas; Merkel, Susanne; Fietkau, Rainer; Hohenberger, Werner

doi:10.1007/s00066-014-0737-7

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Neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy with gemcitabine/cisplatin and surgery versus immediate surgery in resectable pancreatic cancer

Published in Strahlentherapie und Onkologie • Sep 24, 2014

Authors:

Henriette Golcher

Thomas Brunner

Helmut Witzigmann

Abstract

BACKGROUND: In nonrandomized trials, neoadjuvant treatment was reported to prolong survival in patients with pancreatic cancer. As neoadjuvant chemoradiation is established for the treatment of rectal cancer we examined the value of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in pancreatic cancer in a randomized ...

Subject

Medicine

Gemcitabine

Neoadjuvant therapy

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