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SUBMITTER: Saif MW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3481558 | biostudies-other | 2012 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Saif Muhammad Wasif MW Lee Yoomi Y Kim Richard R
Therapeutic advances in medical oncology 20121101 6
Pancreatic cancer is a lethal malignancy with a 5-year survival rate of only 6%. Surgical resection remains the only cure, yet even after resection the 5-year survival is only 20% due to a high recurrence rate. Thus, a high proportion of patients with this disease will ultimately require systemic chemotherapy for advanced pancreatic cancer (APC). While the advent of personalized medicine has resulted in significant advances in the management of many cancer types, the standard of care for pancrea ...[more]