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Chemo May Benefit Some Older Patients With Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer


 

SOURCE:

The research, presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, was funded by the National Cancer Institute and the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group.

LIMITATIONS:

Dr. Chang noted that the study did not reveal which treatment regimen was more effective.

DISCLOSURES:

Dr. Dotan declared relationships with Agenus, Amgen, G1 Therapeutics, Incyte, Olympus, and Taiho Pharmaceutical and institutional relationships with Dragonfly Therapeutics, Gilead Sciences, Ipsen, Kinnate Biopharma, Leap Therapeutics, Lilly, Lutris, NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Relay Therapeutics, and Zymeworks. Dr. Chang declared relationships with Immodulon Therapeutics and Mylan and institutional relationships with AstraZeneca, BMS GmbH & Co. KG, Immodulon Therapeutics, and Merck.

A version of this article appeared on Medscape.com.

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