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SUBMITTER: Teague A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4346211 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Teague Andrea A Lim Kian-Huat KH Wang-Gillam Andrea A
Therapeutic advances in medical oncology 20150301 2
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is one of the deadliest solid malignancies. A large proportion of patients are diagnosed with locally advanced or metastatic disease at the time of presentation and, unfortunately, this severely limits the number of patients who can undergo surgical resection, which offers the only chance for cure. Recent therapeutic advances for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer have extended overall survival, but prognosis still remains grim. Given that traditional chemotherapy ...[more]