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Clinicopathologic analysis of pancreatic adenocarcinoma in African Americans and Caucasians.
Pancreas - 1 Jan 2003
Pernick Nat L, Sarkar Fazlul H, Philip Philip A, Arlauskas Patricia, Shields Anthony F, Vaitkevicius Vainutis K, Dugan Michael C, Adsay N Volkan
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: African Americans have a higher incidence of pancreatic adenocarcinoma than do Caucasians for unknown reasons. Whether other clinicopathologic differences exist between these two groups is not known. This study was undertaken to compare the clinical, pathologic, and biologic findings for a group of patients with a histologic diagnosis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma of the usual type in a single...
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