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New Developments in Surgical Oncology

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Cancer Therapy

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Only surgical therapy can influence decisively the course of a solid malignant tumor of the gastrointestinal tract and cure the patient. Today, the results of standard operative procedures have reached an extremely high standard that will hardly be surpassed even in the future. However, only little improvement has been achieved with regard to cure rates, because more than half of the patients admitted for surgery present with an advanced stage of systemic disease, rendering curative surgery impossible.

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  1. Department of General Surgery, University of Ulm, Steinhövelstraße 9, 7900, Ulm, Germany

    R. Bittner & H. G. Beger

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  1. Department of General Surgery, University of Ulm, Steinhövelstraße 9, 7900, Ulm, Germany

    Hans G. Beger FACS (Professor of Surgery) & Markus Büchler (Lecturer in Surgery) (Professor of Surgery) &  (Lecturer in Surgery)

  2. Division of Tumor Cell Biology, Scripps Clinic & Research Foundation, 10666 North Torrey Pines Road, 92037, La Jolla, CA, USA

    Ralph A. Reisfeld

  3. Clinical Research, Behringwerke AG Marburg, P.O. Box 1140, 3550, Marburg, Germany

    Gregor Schulz

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Bittner, R., Beger, H.G. (1989). New Developments in Surgical Oncology. In: Beger, H.G., Büchler, M., Reisfeld, R.A., Schulz, G. (eds) Cancer Therapy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73721-3_17

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