Surgery, Radiation Gives Early Survival Advantage In Bile Duct Cancer

Oregon Health & Science University researchers are reporting the discovery of an early survival advantage when a combination of surgery and radiation therapy is used for patients with a rare but deadly bile duct cancer.”Surgery and radiotherapy shows an early response benefit. It shows that the addition of radiation is potentially reasonable for the first-line treatment,” said Clifton David Fuller, M.D., Ph.D., principal investigator of the study. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Cancer on October 30th, 2007