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Primary resection versus neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by resection for locally resectable or potentially resectable pancreatic carcinoma without distant metastasis. A multi-centre prospectively randomised phase II-study of the Interdisciplinary Working Group Gastrointestinal Tumours (AIO, ARO, and CAO)

BACKGROUND: The disappointing results of surgical therapy alone of ductal pancreatic cancer can only be improved using multimodal approaches. In contrast to adjuvant therapy, neoadjuvant chemoradiation is able to facilitate resectability with free margins and to lower lymphatic spread. Another advan...

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Autores principales: Brunner, Thomas B, Grabenbauer, Gerhard G, Meyer, Thomas, Golcher, Henriette, Sauer, Rolf, Hohenberger, Werner
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1821337/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17338829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-7-41