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Chemotherapy of Pancreatic Cancer

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Pancreatic Cancer

Abstract

In contrast to the improvements in overall survival for most other gastrointestinal tract cancers, the 5-yr survival of patients with pancreatic cancer sits at a dismal 4% (1), suggesting that there has been no significant improvement in early diagnosis or therapy. In 1998, an estimated 27,600 new cases will be diagnosed (1). This disease is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in men and the fifth cause of cancer death in women.

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Tempero, M. (1998). Chemotherapy of Pancreatic Cancer. In: Reber, H.A. (eds) Pancreatic Cancer. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1810-4_15

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