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- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Recent Results in Cancer Research (RECENTCANCER, volume 177)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Pancreatic Cancer: Step by Step Forward
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Therapy and Monitoring of Disease
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New Treatment Strategies and Outlook
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About this book
Although pancreatic cancer is one of the most serious forms of cancers, the outlook for patients could be improved. The lack of clinical symptoms of early, surgically removable disease most often limits curative treatment options. The aggressive tumor cell biology, leading to a locally advanced nature of the disease and to early metastases, allows curative resection in only 20% of patients at the time of diagnosis. This book gives insight into the current understanding of the management of pancreatic cancer and considers recent findings in cancer research. It provides answers to questions of how to know when cancer is respectable, how to proceed when the diagnosis comes too late for a curative approach, and how to assess different study results. Moreover, it highlights new upcoming therapeutic options and experimental approaches, which might further improve the future prospects for patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pancreatic Cancer
Authors: Hanno Riess, Andrea Goerke, Helmut Oettle
Series Title: Recent Results in Cancer Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71279-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-71266-4Published: 22 November 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09034-9Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-71279-4Published: 17 November 2007
Series ISSN: 0080-0015
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6767
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 186
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oncology, Gastroenterology