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.

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