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Volker Kunzmann, MD, on Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: Findings on nab-Paclitaxel/Gemcitabine and FOLFIRINOX

ESMO 2019 Congress

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Volker Kunzmann, MD, of the University of Würzburg/Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken, discusses the final results of a phase II multicenter trial on the conversion rate in locally advanced pancreatic cancer after nab-paclitaxel/gemcitabine- or FOLFIRINOX-based induction chemotherapy (Abstract 671O).



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