Pancreatic Cancer: What the Oncologist Can Offer for Palliation
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Endoscopic Palliation for Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic cancer is devastating due to its poor prognosis. Patients require a multidisciplinary approach to guide available options, mostly palliative because of advanced disease at presentation. Palliation including relief of biliary obstruction, gastric outlet obstruction, and cancer-related pain has become the focus in patients whose cancer is determined to be unresectable. Endoscopic stent...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0835-7900
DOI: 10.1155/2002/380319