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Would you recommend adjuvant chemotherapy for a patient with subcentimeter pancreatic adenocarcinoma incidentally found during a Whipple resection for high risk IPMN?

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Medical Oncology · NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Short answer is yes, I do. IPMNs with a foci of invasive carcinoma are at risk for recurrence. The prognosis is generally felt to be more favorable than with conventional PDAC, but that may be due to a higher percentage of them being found at an earlier stage. (E.g. ~25% IPMN-associated carcinomas d...

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