Preoperative/neoadjuvant therapy in pancreatic cancer
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - 18:30
in Health & Medicine
In research published this week in PLoS Medicine, Jorg Kleeff from Technische Universitat Munchen, and colleagues suggest that patients with apparently locally non-resectable tumors should be included in neoadjuvant protocols. The authors systematically reviewed studies concerning the effects of neoadjuvant therapy on tumor response, toxicity, resection, and survival percentages in pancreatic cancer.