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Laparoscopic Staging for Pancreatic Carcinoma

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Minimally Invasive Cancer Management

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Approximately 28,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer are diagnosed each year in the United States, making pancreatic cancer the fifth leading cause of cancer-related deaths.1 The incidence of pancreatic cancer is highest in the sixth to eighth decades. At the time of diagnosis, 50% of patients have distant metastasis and only 10% to 15% of patients have resectable lesions, while the rest have locally advanced disease.2,3 Although 5-year survival rates of 15% to 21% following “curative” resection have been reported, the true overall 5-year survival for the disease is dismal, less than 3%.4

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  1. Department of General Surgery, Carolinas Laparoscopic and Advanced Surgery Program, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, 28203, USA

    Frederick L. Greene M.D. (Chairman, Co-Director) & B. Todd Heniford M.D. (Chief of Minimal Access Surgery, Co-Director) (Chairman, Co-Director) &  (Chief of Minimal Access Surgery, Co-Director)

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Ganta, S.V., Conlon, K.C. (2001). Laparoscopic Staging for Pancreatic Carcinoma. In: Greene, F.L., Heniford, B.T. (eds) Minimally Invasive Cancer Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3444-7_10

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