The December issue of SJ Magazine features an article about four new advances in healthcare that are taking place at South Jersey hospitals. The mini-Whipple procedure is now being performed at Cooper to help treat patients with pancreatic cancer. Cooper physicians are hoping that this new variation will bring the same results as the old procedure but with fewer risks.
“From a surgical standpoint, the mini-Whipple is becoming more the standard as a treatment unless there is evidence of cancer in the stomach,” says Francis Spitz, MD, Deputy Director of the Cooper Cancer Institute. “The hope is that as we get targeted therapies and better targeted therapeutics, we may be able to improve our ability to cure patients.”
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