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SUBMITTER: Cools KS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6653597 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cools Katherine S KS Sanoff Hanna K HK Kim Hong Jin HJ Yeh Jen Jen JJ Stitzenberg Karyn B KB
Journal of surgical oncology 20180816 3
<h4>Background</h4>Surgical resection provides the only potentially curative treatment of pancreatic cancer. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy and/or radiation (NAT) is used to downstage patients with borderline resectable tumors. The objective of this study was to examine the postoperative morbidity and mortality of NAT after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA).<h4>Methods</h4>Using the American College of Surgeons-National Surgical Quality Improvement Project Targete ...[more]