Radiation Before Surgery Improves Pancreatic Cancer Outcomes, Study Shows

Sunday, December 14, 2008 - 18:21 in Health & Medicine

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest and most difficult to treat cancers. Now, in a major step forward, researchers have shown that administering radiation therapy prior to surgery nearly doubles survival in pancreatic cancer patients with operable tumors.

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