Data on appropriate treatment for periampullary cancers are lacking. For the most part, clinicians tend to treat these cancers in the same way that they treat pancreatic cancers, with similar surgical ...

July 10, 2012 — Adjuvant chemotherapy is already of proven benefit in pancreatic cancer. Now it has also shown a survival advantage for cancer located in the periampullary region, in and near the head ...

Biliary tract cancer: A large institutional experience. Background: Fear of Cancer Recurrence (FCR) is well documented among survivors of breast, colon and prostate cancer. Incurable recurrence is ...

ASCO: Oncologists Better ID Long-Term Effects of Chemo After adjusting for prognostic variables, patients who receive adjuvant chemotherapy following resection of periampullary adenocarcinomas have ...

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You have full access to this article via your institution. This study reports the long-term results of the multicenter, prospective, randomized, EORTC (European Organization for Research and Treatment ...

The term “biliary tract cancer” refers primarily to cancers that develop in the gallbladder and bile ducts, although periampullary tumors are often considered part of this group as well. Bile-duct ...

Invasive micropapillary carcinoma, originally described as a distinctive type of invasive carcinoma in the breast, is being increasingly recognized as a separate entity in many other organs; however, ...

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