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Review Article| Volume 54, P49-68, September 2020

Neoadjuvant Therapy

When Should It Be Used for Pancreatic Cancer?
  • Kristin N. Kelly
    Affiliations
    Division of Surgical Oncology, Dewitt-Daughtry Department of Surgery, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 1120 Northwest 14th Street, CRB, 4th Floor, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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    1 Present address: 8613 Southwest 10th Road, Gainvesville, FL 32607.
    Francisco I. Macedo
    Footnotes
    1 Present address: 8613 Southwest 10th Road, Gainvesville, FL 32607.
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    Department of Surgery, North Florida Regional Medical Center, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA
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  • Nipun B. Merchant
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    Corresponding author.
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    Division of Surgical Oncology, Dewitt-Daughtry Department of Surgery, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 1120 Northwest 14th Street, CRB, 4th Floor, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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    1 Present address: 8613 Southwest 10th Road, Gainvesville, FL 32607.
      The superiority of neoadjuvant chemotherapy over adjuvant chemotherapy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma survival remains to be determined.

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