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1: World J Gastroenterol. 2007 Dec 21;13(47):6433-5.Click here to read Links

Complete pathological response following down-staging chemoradiation in locally advanced pancreatic cancer: challenging the boundaries.

Khan AZ, Pitsinis V, Mudan SS.

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Royal Marsden Hospital, Chelsea, London SW3 6JJ, United Kingdom. aamirzkhan@yahoo.com

Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive malignancy, relatively resistant to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which usually presents late. Disease specific mortality approaches unity despite advances in adjuvant therapy. We present the first reported case of complete pathological response following neoadjuvant therapy in a locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

PMID: 18081235 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]