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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2010-04-01
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Series: | PLoS Medicine |
Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/20422030/pdf/?tool=EBI |