PROSTATE CANCER

Combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer will regain hope surgery The University of Michigan Medical School and his colleagues, Dr. JB Ammori that radiotherapy combined gemcitabine (Gem / RT) as a new mean...

Pancreatic cancer laparoscopy reduce unnecessary laparotomy Tel Aviv E. Wolfson Medical Center Dr. Pinhas P. Schachter and his colleagues evaluated laparoscopy and laparoscopic ultrasonography (EH ul...

Japan's Tokyo Komagome Hospital Dr. Okamoto and his colleagues selected 144 cases of pancreatic cancer patients, intraoperative radiotherapy and analysis of the efficacy of radiation therapy. Patients were divided into 2 groups: group 1 included 65 patients with unresectable tumors using shunt surgery; Group 2 included 68 cases of patients with tumor resection. In addition, the PWC study, 11 patients with radiation therapy from around the hemodynamic changes of pancreatic arterial infusion chemotherapy after them.

The results found that 30 patients underwent radical resection R0 best survival rate, the three-year survival rate of 35.4%, of which three cases Phase III patients survive more than five years. R1 or R2 to accept a surgery group and two patients, the average survival period were 10.9 and 11.1 months, there was no significant difference. 11 patients received chemotherapy in patients with an artery-year survival rate was 45.4%, 5 patients survived more than one year, no liver metastasis and primary tumor recurrence.

Dr. Okamoto, of pancreatic cancer radiotherapy improved survival of patients with limited effect. On the other hand, the use of new drug delivery system for arterial infusion chemotherapy in combination have a good prospect.

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Endoscopic ultrasound localization biopsy for pancreatic cancer is the discovery of an excellent supplementary means Indiana University in the United States a prospective study showed that, for biopsy specimens negative cytology results for the pancreatic ...

Earlier studies showed that pancreatic cancer vaccine safe and effective Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine study of 14 patients with pancreatic cancer vaccine experiment. Pancreatic cancer surgery remov...

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New safety in the use and pancreatic cancer vaccine-induced immune response Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Medical Association's Dr. Elizabeth M. Jaffee and his colleagues on the 14 cases eight weeks before the trip P...

The prognosis and treatment Many patients may be given the long-term local control, or even cured. But the administration can be a lot of factors such as tumor grade, ...

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