Effect of adjuvant chemotherapy with fluorouracil plus folinic acid or gemcitabine vs observation on survival in patients with resected periampullary adenocarcinoma: the ESPAC-3 periampullary cancer randomized trial.

CONTEXT: Patients with periampullary adenocarcinomas undergo the same resectional surgery as that of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Although adjuvant chemotherapy has been shown to have a survival benefit for pancreatic cancer, there have been no randomized trials for periampullary...

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Main Authors: Neoptolemos, J, Moore, M, Cox, T, Valle, J, Palmer, D, McDonald, A, Carter, R, Tebbutt, N, Dervenis, C, Smith, D, Glimelius, B, Charnley, R, Lacaine, F, Scarfe, A, Middleton, MR, Anthoney, A, Ghaneh, P, Halloran, C, Lerch, M, Oláh, A, Rawcliffe, C, Verbeke, C, Campbell, F, Büchler, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2012