Long-Term Progression-Free Survival in a Patient with Locally Advanced, Unresectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is amongst the most lethal malignancies with dismal five-year survival rates. Surgical excision is the mainstay of therapy and unresectable disease is considered incurable. Herein, we describe a patient with unresectable, advanced stage pancreatic adenocarcinoma with a rema...

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Autores principales: Dyer, Brandon A, Kahn, Leonel A, Matin, Mahan, Bold, Richard J, Tanaka, Michael I, Monjazeb, Arta M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2015
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Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4725616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26824007
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.406
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author Dyer, Brandon A
Kahn, Leonel A
Matin, Mahan
Bold, Richard J
Tanaka, Michael I
Monjazeb, Arta M
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description Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is amongst the most lethal malignancies with dismal five-year survival rates. Surgical excision is the mainstay of therapy and unresectable disease is considered incurable. Herein, we describe a patient with unresectable, advanced stage pancreatic adenocarcinoma with a remarkable clinical course following definitive chemoradiotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-47256162016-01-28 Long-Term Progression-Free Survival in a Patient with Locally Advanced, Unresectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Dyer, Brandon A Kahn, Leonel A Matin, Mahan Bold, Richard J Tanaka, Michael I Monjazeb, Arta M Cureus Pathology Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is amongst the most lethal malignancies with dismal five-year survival rates. Surgical excision is the mainstay of therapy and unresectable disease is considered incurable. Herein, we describe a patient with unresectable, advanced stage pancreatic adenocarcinoma with a remarkable clinical course following definitive chemoradiotherapy. Cureus 2015-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4725616/ /pubmed/26824007 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.406 Text en Copyright © 2015, Dyer et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Long-Term Progression-Free Survival in a Patient with Locally Advanced, Unresectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
title Long-Term Progression-Free Survival in a Patient with Locally Advanced, Unresectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
title_full Long-Term Progression-Free Survival in a Patient with Locally Advanced, Unresectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
title_fullStr Long-Term Progression-Free Survival in a Patient with Locally Advanced, Unresectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
title_full_unstemmed Long-Term Progression-Free Survival in a Patient with Locally Advanced, Unresectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
title_short Long-Term Progression-Free Survival in a Patient with Locally Advanced, Unresectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
title_sort long-term progression-free survival in a patient with locally advanced, unresectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma
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