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A Ten-Year Experience With Carcinoma of the PancreasA Cooperative Study
AMA Arch Surg. 1967;94(3):322-325.
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WHAT IS the place of resection in patients with adenocarcinoma of the pancreas? Is resection ever justified in view of the high reported rates of operative mortality and the low reported rates for five-year survival after resection? How much palliation is achieved by operations designed to bypass obstructions to the biliary or gastrointestinal tracts in patients with this disease?
Members of the Portland Surgical Society were interested in finding answers to these questions. Under the sponsorship of the Society, a ten-year review of the surgical experience with patients with this disease was organized. This cooperative enterprise was successful in collecting a large series of patients with this disease, all of whom were treated since 1955. An analysis of the results of operative treatment in this large group of patients forms the basis of this report.
Material and Methods
The records from seven major Portland hospitals of all patients who were
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Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 27, 1966.
Reprint requests to Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Conn 06115 (James H. Foster, MD).
The Portland Surgical Society. Participants in this study were Robert O. Neilson, MD, St. Vincent Hospital; J. Gordon Grout, MD, Good Samaritan Hospital; LeRoy E. Groshong, MD, Emanuel Hospital; Walter C. Reiner, MD, Portland Sanitarium and Hospital; Robert W. Marcum, MD, Providence Hospital; Daniel L. Dennis, MD, University of Oregon Medical School Hospitals; and James H. Foster, MD, Portland Veterans Administration Hospital.
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