Combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer will regain hope surgery

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The University of Michigan Medical School and his colleagues, Dr. JB Ammori that radiotherapy combined gemcitabine (Gem / RT) as a new means of adjuvant therapy is expected for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, but its side effects limit its application.

A cohort study researchers selected for unresectable advanced pancreatic cancer patients, Gem / RT can again after treatment of surgical resection. In from July 1996 to June 2001, a total of 67 without distant metastasis in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer receiving Gem / RT adjuvant therapy, 17 patients (25%) received laparotomy, nine patients received standard Wipple surgical resection, the overall rate of surgical resection again 13%. After 30 days of zero mortality, no major postoperative complications occurred. The average hospitalization time of 14 days (11-19 days). The average follow-up of 32 months after surgery to remove the tumor in patients with an average survival time of 17.6 months, while the other 58 patients with an average survival time was 11.9 months.

Dr. Ammori, Gem / RT as a new means of a safe and effective adjuvant treatment, is expected to regain part of advanced pancreatic cancer in patients with surgical resection hope.

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