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Pancreatic Cancer Treatment (PDQ®)     
Last Modified: 07/31/2008
Health Professional Version
Changes to This Summary (07/31/2008)

The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.

Treatment Option Overview 1

Added text 2 about the controversial role of postoperative therapy in the management of pancreatic cancer (cited the Gastrointestinal Tumor Study Group as reference 6, Kalser et al. as reference 7, Klinkenbijl et al. as reference 8, 2001 Neoptolemos et al. as reference 9, and 2004 Neoptolemos et al. as reference 10).

Stage I and II Pancreatic Cancer 3

Added text 4 to update the overall and median survival rates of the RTOG-9704 trial (cited Regine et al. as reference 15 and level of evidence: 1iiA).



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1http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/pancreatic/HealthProfessional/35.c
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2http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/pancreatic/HealthProfessional/37.c
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3http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/pancreatic/HealthProfessional/39.c
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4http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/pancreatic/HealthProfessional/201.
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