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Meta‐analysis comparing upfront surgery with neoadjuvant treatment in patients with resectable or borderline resectable pancreatic cancer

E. Versteijne, J. Vogel, M. Besselink, O. Busch, J. Wilmink, J. Daams, C. V. van Eijck, B. Koerkamp et al.

British Journal of Surgery, 2018

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Abstract

Studies comparing upfront surgery with neoadjuvant treatment in pancreatic cancer may report only patients who underwent resection and so survival will be skewed. The aim of this study was to report survival by intention to treat in a comparison of upfront surgery versus neoadjuvant treatment in resectable or borderline resectable pancreatic cancer.

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