A city hospital has successfully performed 'laparoscopic whipple surgery with portal vein resection' on a 73-year-old man from North India,suffering from advanced pancreatic cancer Claimed to be the ...

Background: Prior studies have demonstrated the poor prognostic significance of positive peritoneal cytology in pancreatic cancer surgery. It has not been determined what significance positive ...

THE results of surgical treatment of carcinoma of the head of the pancreas are disappointing. Only about 10 per cent of patients operated upon are considered candidates for removal of the neoplasm. 1 ...

If staging reveals that the tumor can be removed by local resection, surgery is the preferred treatment option for otherwise healthy patients without metastases. Tumors of the pancreatic head and the ...

Background Surgery remains the only curative option for the treatment of pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC). The goal of this study was to investigate the clinical outcome and prognostic factors in ...

This History Maker article was written by the coauthors in collaboration with Dr. John Cameron and is based on several detailed discussions with Dr. Cameron. The paper focuses on Dr. Cameron's ...

Only two centers in the World performed the laparoscopic method for pancreatic cancer, Kendrick Mayo Clinic in the US and Gem Hospital in Coimbatore. A ‘laparoscopic whipple surgery with portal vein ...