Trial Supports Use of Marker to Predict How Pancreatic Cancer Patients Do After Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University Surgeon Finds

A team of researchers, led by surgeons at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson in Philadelphia, has found further evidence supporting the ability of a protein to predict how well a patient with advanced pancreatic cancer will do after surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. The levels of the protein CA 19-9 in the blood can be used to determine the need for further therapy, they say.

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