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Treatment combinations for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors

A new paper has recently been released in Digestion: International Journal of Gastroenterology that reviewed previously reported European trials. These trials specifically aimed at the treatment of advanced pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors outlined several combinations of chemotherapy drugs used to help with…

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Unprecedented Responses Seen in Neuroendocrine Tumors

Summary: Robert Fine, MD, reported at a press conference held in advance of the 2014 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium (GICS), that the chemotherapy combination of capecitabine plus temozolomide either stalled disease progression or shrank tumors in 97% of patients whose disease had…

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