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Because there is no clinical evidence for the survival benefit of total pancreatectomy over a Whipple. There's absolutely nothing simple about surgery when the
by OopsCriticality 11y ago
Because there is no clinical evidence for the survival benefit of total pancreatectomy over a Whipple.
There's absolutely nothing simple about surgery when the pancreas is involved.
- mrfusion 11y agoDo you have a citation for that? I'd be curious to read more. Intiutively it sounds wrong since I'd image any cancer that comes back after the whipple is coming from left over cancer cells in the pancreas, no?