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July 21, 2008
Node Evaluation for Pancreatic and Gastric Cancer Differentiates Hospitals   

  By Crystal Phend, Staff Writer, MedPage Today

CHICAGO, July 21 -- Better gastric and pancreatic cancer survival rates at high-quality, high-volume cancer centers may be partly because of improved staging through more extensive searches during surgery for metastatic nodes, researchers found.      <READ MORE>

 

May 20, 2008
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Apr 25, 2008
ASA: Laparoscopic Surgery Gets Good Grades for Pancreatectomy   

  By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today

NEW YORK, April 25 -- For patients with cancer confined to the pancreatic body or tail, laparoscopic left pancreatectomy leads to less morbidity, lower complication rates, and shorter hospitalization, according to data reported here.     <READ MORE>

 

Apr 17, 2008
AACR: Drug Combo Shows Promise in Advanced Pancreatic Cancer   

  By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today

SAN DIEGO, April 17 -- More than 70% of patients with pancreatic cancer derived a clinical benefit when treated in a small, phase I trial with the combination of nanoparticle albumin bound paclitaxel (Abraxane) and gemcitabine (Gemzar), investigators reported here.     <READ MORE>

 

Mar 4, 2008
Gemcitabine Not a Clear Winner for Adjuvant Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer  

  By Crystal Phend, Staff Writer, MedPage Today

BALTIMORE, March 4 -- Gemcitabine (Gemzar) appears to do little to improve survival for pancreatic cancer patients when added to adjuvant fluorouracil-based chemoradiation after surgery, researchers here found.     <READ MORE>

 

RNA Patterns May Aid Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer (May 01, 2007)

  COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 1 -- To distinguish between pancreatic cancer and pancreatitis, clinicians may soon be able to turn to the expression patterns of short strands of RNA -- so-called microRNAs.  <READ MORE>
   

 

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