Tumor size as measured at initial X-ray examination, not length of bile duct stricture, predicts survival in patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer

BMC Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Forssell, Henrik ^a,b   Pröh, Katrin ^a   Wester, Michael ^a   Krona, Hans ^c  

^a BLEKINGE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Blekinge Centre of Competence   (Sweden)

^c BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biliary stricture; Palliative; Pancreatic cancer; Pancreatic neoplasm; Prediction of survival; Survival; Tumor size; Unresectable

Indexed keywords

GEMCITABINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOLESTASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ICD-10; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND; X RAY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILE DUCTS; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DEOXYCYTIDINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84866555004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-12-429     Document Type: Article

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