Review article: current practice and future perspectives in detection and diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2036.1998.00393.x

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Review article: current practice and future perspectives in detection and diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.

Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics - 1 Oct 1998

Haycox A, Lombard M, Neoptolemos J, Walley T

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Pancreatic cancer is the tenth most prevalent malignancy and the fifth most common cause of cancer death in the developed world. Less than 10% of patients survive for more than 1 year following diagnosis and the 5-year survival rate (0.4%) is the lowest of any cancer. The poor prognosis associate...

Topics

Biomarkers
Forecasting
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Mutation
Neoplasm Staging
Pancreatic Neoplasms
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Ultrasonography

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