The Whipple procedure
Better outcomes for pancreatic cancer surgery.
Pancreatic cancer has been in the public eye lately because it has afflicted several prominent people, including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, actor Patrick Swayze, and Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University whose inspirational last lecture became a YouTube sensation and, as a book, a national best seller.
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