Carcinoma of the pancreas. Is treatment worthwhile?
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Studying Pancreatic Cancer Stem Cell Characteristics for Developing New Treatment Strategies
Published on: June 20, 2015
Missouri Medicine
|February 1, 1989
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A study of 60 patients with adenocarcinoma of the pancreas demonstrates the poor prognosis associated with this disease. Unless patients had localized, resectable tumors, survival was virtually unchanged by any treatment prescribed.
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