Journal of Surgery

Daniel Timofte

Publications

• Research Article
  Survival Prediction for Romanian Patients with Pancreatic Cancer
  Author(s): Daniel Timofte, Mihaela Blaj, Florin Petrariu, Lidia Ionescu and Lacramioara OchiuzDaniel Timofte, Mihaela Blaj, Florin Petrariu, Lidia Ionescu and Lacramioara Ochiuz
  
  Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal malignancies worldwide and in some of the latest statistics ranks fourth in the total number of deaths related to cancer in patients of both genders. Currently, curative treatment is only possible in cases of resectable disease and during the initial stages. Still, although complete surgical resection is the only potential curative approach of this disease, it can only be performed in 10 to 20% of patients, since most individuals present with advanced disease upon diagnosis. Moreover, in the recent decades the development and improvement of surgical techniques have only improved postoperative mortality, without having any significant impact on the survival, with specialized pancreatic surgery centres reporting mortality below 5%. In this way, in the present study conducted on 188 patients from the “St. Spiridon” Clinical Emergenc.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.7438/1584-9341-13-2-3

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