By Kate O’Rourke
Switching chemotherapy in patients with borderline or locally advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) improved outcomes in a retrospective study conducted at Mayo Clinic. Patients who did not respond to first-line therapy had substitutions that ultimately were beneficial to a majority, according to the researchers.
“More than half of these patients subsequently showed response that allowed proceeding to curative-intent surgical resection,” said lead
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