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Elderly patients with pancreatic cancer

Andromachi S Kougioumtzopoulou1, Kostas N Syrigos, Muhammad Wasif Saif

  • 1Radiotherapy Unit, Second Department of Radiology, Attikon General Hospital. Athens, Greece. andromachi.kou@gmail.com.

JOP : Journal of the Pancreas
|July 31, 2014
PubMed
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Elderly patients with advanced pancreatic cancer may benefit from specific treatments. Systemic therapy improved survival for pancreatic adenocarcinoma, while octreotide-LAR improved survival for neuroendocrine pancreatic tumors.

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