Drug Combination Improves Survival in Pancreatic Cancer

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Drug Combination Improves Survival in Pancreatic Cancer

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Drug Combination Improves Survival in Pancreatic Cancer Clinicians have a new regimen to consider for the first-line treatment of certain patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer. First-line therapy with FOLFIRINOX, a combination of older chemotherapeutic drugs, improved median overall survival (OS) of certain patients with pancreatic cancer by four months (11.1 vs. 6.8 months) compared with gemcitabine (Gemzar, Eli Lilly). Kate O'Rourke

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Tags: Pancreatic Disease, Cancer, Cancer Medication, Pancreatic Cancer, Drug, Gemzar, Eli Lilly and Company

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