Items Tagged ‘laparoscopic surgery’

May 3, 2012

Pancreatic Cancer Removed via Laparoscopic Surgery

By Stacy Theobald

Mindy Cahn is living proof that pancreatic cancer can be beat. The odds can be daunting. According to the National Cancer Institute, the five-year survival rate for localized pancreatic cancer is 21 percent. For cancer that has spread, the survival rate is about 9 percent. Cahn, 60, had been diagnosed with a softball-sized cyst on […]

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