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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Brunner M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6770743 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
International journal of molecular sciences 20190913 18
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal malignancies and is associated with a poor prognosis. Surgery is considered the only potential curative treatment for pancreatic cancer, followed by adjuvant chemotherapy, but surgery is reserved for the minority of patients with non-metastatic resectable tumors. In the future, neoadjuvant treatment strategies based on molecular testing of tumor biopsies may increase the amount of patients becoming eligible for surgery. In the context of non-metastatic ...[more]