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Pancreatic cancer

Clinical practice guidelines — what is the evidence?

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology volume 13, pages593–594(2016)Cite this article

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In three practice guidelines from ASCO, experts provide evidence-based recommendations that address overarching clinical questions for the management of patients with pancreatic cancer. These guidelines offer improved strategies for interdisciplinary patient management and highlight the need for further research in several areas.

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  1. Oliver Strobel and Markus W. Büchler are at the Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

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Strobel, O., Büchler, M. Clinical practice guidelines — what is the evidence?. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 13, 593–594 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrclinonc.2016.127

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