Predicting mortality and adverse events in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer treated with palliative gemcitabine-based chemotherapy in a multicentre phase III randomized clinical trial: the APC-SAKK risk scores

Background: The prognosis of advanced pancreatic cancer (APC) is poor and differs considerably among patients. Therefore, it is clinically relevant to identify patients with APC who are more likely to benefit from palliative chemotherapy with reduced risk of toxicity. To date, there is no prognostic...

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Main Authors: Piera Gargiulo, Daniel Dietrich, Richard Herrmann, György Bodoky, Thomas Ruhstaller, Werner Scheithauer, Bengt Glimelius, Simona Berardi, Sandro Pignata, Peter Brauchli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-01-01
Series:Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1758835918818351