Ultrasound Ablation in Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Patients – What should be the Next Step?
Journal Title: Pancreas – Open Journal - Year 2016, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
In the last decades the treatment for many diseases has changed dramatically. Open surgery procedures with high morbidity and complication rates, suboptimal clinical results based on large impairment for the patients were replaced by drug treatment or minimally invasive techniques. Examples such as interventional cardiology procedures in acute myocardial infarction, interventional endoscopies in the treatment of hepato-biliary tract diseases, eradication of Helicobacter pylori for gastric ulcer using drugs are good evidence that the words of William Osler “Diseases that harm require therapies that harm less” are valid now-a-days.
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Dobromir Dimitrov
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