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ReviewCurrent treatment options in oncology2006

Adjuvant and neoadjuvant approaches to treat surgically resectable pancreatic cancer.

Vicki L Keedy, Jordan Berlin

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Review in Current treatment options in oncology, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Vicki L KeedyVanderbilt University Medical Center, 777 Preston Research Building, Nashville, TN 37232, USA. vicki.keedy@vanderbilt.edu
Jordan Berlin

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adjuvant therapy for pancreatic cancer is currently a controversial topic. Very little is known about the potential components of adjuvant therapy. All published randomized trials evaluating adjuvant therapy for pancreatic cancer have limitations that prevent the establishment of an absolute "standard of care." However, with the recent report of Charite Onkologie Clinical Studies in Gastrointestinal Cancer in abstract form and European Study Group for Pancreatic Cancer-1, it is clear that chemotherapy has an effect as adjuvant therapy. The role of radiation remains unclear. The future of adjuvant therapy is dependent on the investigators designing better trials that answer the important remaining questions: the role of radiation therapy, the integration of newer agents, and the best regimen of those currently available.

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Neoadjuvant TherapyAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsChemotherapy, AdjuvantClinical Trials as TopicHumansPancreatic NeoplasmsRadiotherapy, Adjuvant

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