Cancer of the Pancreas-Actual 5, 10, and 20+Year Survival: The Lucky and Fortunate Few.
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Overview
abstract
Cancer of the pancreas (CaP) is a dismal, uncommon, systemic malignancy. This article updates an earlier experience of actual long-term survival of CaP in patients treated between 1991 to 2000, and reviews the literature. Survival is expressed as actual, not projected, survival.