Abstract:Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) had the worst prognosis of any of the common cancers, with only a quarter of patients still alive 1 year from diagnosis. 1 Given the unprecedented disruption to health care services during the pandemic, 2 it is perhaps unsurprising that pancreatic cancer outcomes would have worsened, with a growing body of evidence to support this hypothesis. The more important questions, rather, are what was the extent of and reasons for this impact, a… Show more
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