Smaller Pancreatic Tumors Greatly Increase Prognosis

The odds of surviving cancer of the pancreas increase dramatically for patients whose tumors are smallest, according to a new study by researchers at Saint Louis University and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston the first study to specifically evaluate the link between tumor size and survival rates for one of the most common and deadly cancers. The findings in the current edition of Pancreas (

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Filed under: Cancer on January 29th, 2008