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  2. Duodenal cancer - Wikipedia

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    A 'Whipple' procedure is a type of surgery that is sometimes possible with this cancer. In this procedure, the duodenum, a portion of the Pancreas (the head), and the gall bladder are usually removed, the small intestine is brought up to the Pylorus (the valve at the bottom of the stomach) and the liver and pancreatic digestive enzymes and bile ...

  3. Five-year survival rate - Wikipedia

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    Five-year relative survival rates describe the percentage of patients with a disease alive five years after the disease is diagnosed, divided by the percentage of the general population of corresponding sex and age alive after five years. Typically, cancer five-year relative survival rates are well below 100%, reflecting excess mortality among ...

  4. Pancreaticoduodenectomy - Wikipedia

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    It is often called Whipple's procedure or the Whipple procedure, after the American surgeon Allen Whipple who devised an improved version of the surgery in 1935 while at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York [38] and subsequently came up with multiple refinements to his technique.

  5. Cancer survival rates - Wikipedia

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    The 5-year relative survival rate drops to 22% for women with stage IV breast cancer. [3] In cancer types with high survival rates, incidence is usually higher in the developed world, where longevity is also greater. Cancers with lower survival rates are more common in developing countries. [6]

  6. Periampullary cancer - Wikipedia

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    carcinoma head of pancreas; It presents with painless jaundice which may have a waxing and waning nature, because at times the sloughing of the tumor tissue relieves the obstruction partially. [citation needed] Signs and symptoms of periampullary cancer [2] Jaundice (yellowing of skin, eyes and urine with pale stools) Itching; Abdominal pain

  7. Pelvic exenteration - Wikipedia

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    The 5-year survival rate of patients undergoing pelvic exenteration following complete resection of disease was 59.3%. Factors shown to influence the survival rate following a pelvic exenteration procedure include age, the presence of metastatic disease, lymph node status, circumferential resection margin , local recurrence of disease, and the ...

  8. Pancreatic cancer - Wikipedia

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    Pancreatic adenocarcinoma typically has a very poor prognosis; after diagnosis, 25% of people survive one year and 12% live for five years. [ 6 ] [ 10 ] For cancers diagnosed early, the five-year survival rate rises to about 20%. [ 21 ]

  9. Anal cancer - Wikipedia

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    Surgical resection with permanent colostomies was the standard treatment until the 1970s, yielding 5-year overall survival of approximately 50%. The best overall survival rates are seen after combined radiation therapy combined with chemotherapy (5-FU + Mitomycin) in people with T2N0 and T3N0 categories of disease (5-y overall survival: 82% ...

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