Primary squamous cell carcinoma of the pancreas: an update on a rare neoplasm from the SEER database
Jacob A. Ford, Arjun Bhatt, Rachel C. Kim, Michael Larkins, Aidan M. Burke · 2023
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Jacob Ford and four co-authors update what is known about squamous cell cancer of the pancreas, a rare form of the disease, in a study published in two thousand twenty-three. It makes up only a small share of pancreatic cancers, so its patterns and best care are poorly known. The team drew cases from the national SEER registry for diagnoses between nineteen ninety-two and two thousand nineteen.
The registry held three hundred forty-two cases, split near evenly by sex. About one in three patients got chemotherapy, one in five got radiation, and about one in seven had surgery. Patients found before age fifty lived longer than those found later. Overall survival stayed short across groups. The authors say the data set a baseline for a cancer too rare for easy trials.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jacob A. Ford, Arjun Bhatt, Rachel C. Kim, Michael Larkins, Aidan M. Burke |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |