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Cohort R29d: Adjuvant Cancer Chemotherapy Study: Pancreas Print   Email


Title: Cohort R29d: Adjuvant Cancer Chemotherapy Study: Pancreas

Summary: A cooperative study using the resources of surgical services in 22 VA hospitals was initiated in 1957 as part of the National Cancer Institute effort to evaluate chemotherapy in cancer treatment. The purpose of the VA Surgical Adjuvant Cooperative Cancer Chemotherapy Study was to demonstrate whether chemotherapy administered at and soon after operation as an adjunct to resectional surgery can increase the cure rate for patients, or appreciably prolong their survival time.

References:
VA Adjuvant Cancer Chemotherapy Cooperative Group: Status of Adjuvant Cancer Chemotherapy. A Preliminary Report of Cooperative Studies in the Veterans Administration, 2:466-473, 1961.

VA Adjuvant Cancer Chemotherapy Cooperative Group: Randomized Study of 5-FU and CCNU in Pancreatic Cancer. Cancer 47:27-31, 1981.

Keywords: pancreatic cancer; veterans; chemotherapy; cancer treatment

Cohort Characteristics: 481 total records

Data item

Exposed (n=394)

Comparison (n=87)

Full name:

100% complete

100% complete

Date of Birth:

90% complete

37% complete

VA Claim Number:

100% complete

99% complete

Race:

61% complete

68% complete

   White:

51%

53%




Last Updated: 8/15/2005, 01:39 PM RSS





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