Timing Versus Duration of Adjuvant Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer: All the Lessons We Need in Life Are Taught to Us As Children
Mené sur 985 patients atteints d'un adénocarcinome du pancréas, cet essai européen de phase III évalue, du point de vue de la survie globale, l'efficacité d'une chimiothérapie adjuvante comprenant au maximum 6 cycles de gemcitabine ou fluorouracile, notamment en fonction du délai entre l'opération chirurgicale et le début du traitement
As children most of us heard Aesop’s fable, “The Tortoise and the Hare,” in which a slow, cautious tortoise wins a race against a much faster but far less cautious rabbit. The tortoise plods on with a singleminded purpose of completing the race, whereas the rabbit allows other distractions to cause him to lose the race. In the article by Valle et al that accompanies this editorial, we are once again taught this important lesson...
Journal of Clinical Oncology , éditorial en libre accès, 2014