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Symptoms, Signs, and Results of Treatment in One Hundred Twenty-Two Cases

EUGENE E. CLIFFTON, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1952;65(2):290-306.

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DEFINITIVE surgical resection of carcinoma of the head of the pancreas or papilla of Vater is relatively recent¹ and has been performed so infrequently that the proper evaluation of its place in treatment is difficult. The over-all results of treatment of carcinoma of the pancreas are even more difficult to establish, since most reported series include only cases with resection. Recent reviews by Loggan and Kleinsasser² and Child³ make redundant a further complete review of the literature.

The incidence of carcinoma of the pancreas is not rare, as established from the 1949 figures of the Connecticut State Tumor Registry.⁴ It occurred 104 times in 4,661 registered cases, an incidence of 2.2%. The incidence in males was higher, 2.8%, as compared with 1.7% in women. This male-female ratio of 1.6: 1 compares with the 2: 1 and the 2.5: 1 ratio in postmortem series.⁵ All patients . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW HAVEN, CONN.

From the Tumor Registry of the Section of Oncology of the Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine.; Dr. Cliffton is Assistant Professor of Surgery (Oncology) Yale University School of Medicine.

Footnotes
This study was supported in part by the Jane Coffin Childs Fund 23-2, the Connecticut Cancer Society #222, the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund for Cancer Research #86, the Institutional Research Grant #47 of the American Cancer Society, and special funds of the Section of Oncology of Yale University School of Medicine.

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