Monthly Archives: November 2013
Tarceva Plus Gemcitabine After Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer ?
Gress and colleagues from the University of Marburg in Germany published the results of a Phase II trial in the October 2013 issue of the Annals of Oncology, the official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology. They did a prospective multi-center study of 76 pancreatic cancer (ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas) patients over […]
Three Things that Aren’t True About Pancreatic Cancer
“Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.” -Yogi Berra There are legitimate controversies in pancreatic cancer. Often over time, the pendulum can swing to one side or the other of a scientific conflict – as new evidence supports a contention or not. Sometimes, with a greater understanding of the complexity of an issue, […]