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SUBMITTER: Russo S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5549642 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Russo Suzanne S Ammori John J Eads Jennifer J Dorth Jennifer J
Future oncology (London, England) 20160201 5
Controversy remains regarding neoadjuvant approaches in the treatment of pancreatic cancer. Neoadjuvant therapy has several potential advantages over adjuvant therapy including earlier delivery of systemic treatment, in vivo assessment of response, increased resectability rate in borderline resectable patients and increased margin-negative resection rate. At present, there are no randomized data favoring neoadjuvant over adjuvant therapy and multiple neoadjuvant approaches are under investigatio ...[more]