Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
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https://doi.org/10.6092/1590-8577/1469Keywords:
Chemoradiotherapy, Adjuvant, Drug Therapy, Neoadjuvant Therapy, Pancreatic NeoplasmsAbstract
Treatment of locally advanced pancreatic cancer is palliative, based on chemotherapy and according to response, chemoradiotherapy can be applied. The authors summarize three abstracts (#LBA146, #256 and #303) presented on the 2013 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, which were focused on treatment of locally advanced pancreatic cancer. A discussion is presented about the different chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy regimens, that move away from gemcitabine-based treatment, and the effort to find less toxic, but efficient therapeutic combinations.
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