Mayo Clinic Minute: Advances in pancreatic cancer treatment extending lives

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07/13/23

Pancreatic cancer has long been one of the scariest diagnoses a doctor can give you.

Dr. Mark Truty is a cancer surgeon at Mayo Clinic who specializes in this type of tumor. He and his team of surgeons and oncologists have discovered that with the right combination of treatments, pancreatic cancer may no longer be a death sentence.

Dr. Truty says more effective chemotherapies and willingness to consider more difficult operations have helped patients in the study live up to five years longer than in the past, and still counting.

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