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... Chapter 089. Pancreatic Cancer (Part 4) Pancreatic Cancer: Treatment Symptoms and the associated impaired performance status are significant issues in the management of patients with pancreatic ... may be treated with pancreatic enzyme supplementation. Indeed effective symptom management is as important a therapeutic goal as survival prolongation. Advanced Pancreat...

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... Chapter 089. Pancreatic Cancer (Part 3) Carcinoma of the pancreas. A. Sonogram showing pancreatic carcinoma (P), dilated intrahepatic bile ... rather than confirmatory, of the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Serum levels of CA 19-9 can be elevated in patients with jaundice without pancreatic cancer present. The level of CA 19-9 may have ... ductal lesions obtained by...

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... mellitus and pancreatic cancer has also been demonstrated; however, it is uncertain if diabetes is a precedent of, or consequence of, pancreatic cancer. Chapter 089. Pancreatic Cancer (Part 1) ... (Part 1) Harrison's Internal Medicine > Chapter 89. Pancreatic Cancer Pancreatic Cancer: Introduction Over 90% of pancreatic cancers are ductal adenocar...

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... Chapter 089. Pancreatic Cancer (Part 2) Physical Findings Patients with early disease may not have any significant ... markedly improved by the use of pancreatic protocol scanning on modern multislice scanners. CT may show a pancreatic mass, dilatation of the biliary system or pancreatic duct, or distal spread ... used in the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, particula...

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... pancreatic cancer. J Clin Oncol 23:4524, 2005 [PMID: 16002843] Chapter 089. Pancreatic Cancer (Part 5) Figure 89-2 Survival by adjuvant chemotherapy. Kaplan- Meier estimates ... Cunningham D: Chemotherapy for advanced pancreatic cancer. 23:4538, 2005 [PMID: 16002845] Bibliography Goggins M: Molecular m arkers of early pancreatic cancer. J...

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... Chapter 013. Chest Discomfort (Part 4) Pulmonary Embolism (See also Chap. 256) Chest pain due to pulmonary embolism

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... Chapter 086. Breast Cancer (Part 4) If a nonpalpable mammographic lesion has a low index of suspicion, mammographic ... and women who have had a biopsy with benign findings are at greater risk of developing breast cancer than those who have not had a biopsy. The subset of women with ductal or lobular cell proliferation ... small fraction (3%) with atypical hyperplasia, hav...

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... appropriate systemic regimen. Prognostic Variables Chapter 086. Breast Cancer (Part 6) Breast Cancer: Treatment Primary Breast Cancer Breast-conserving treatments, consisting of the ... therapy after local management of breast cancer substantially improves survival. More than one-third of the women who would otherwise die of metastatic breast cancer remain disease-fr...

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... regimens are usually seen. Chapter 086. Breast Cancer (Part 8) Table 86-3 Suggested Approaches to Adjuvant Therapy Age Group Lymp h Node Status a Endocr ine Receptor (ER) Status ... although survival advantages have been shown. The first decision is whether chemotherapy or endocrine therapy should be used. While adjuvant tamoxifen improves survival regardless of axillar...

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