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Patients with Pancreatic Cancer

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These studies are for patients with potentially resectable adenocarcinoma of the pancreas and without a tissue diagnosis of cancer.

Double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized phase III study comparing marimastat to placebo as adjuvant (postoperative) therapy in patients with resectable pancreatic cancer (multiinstitutional study) (Protocol ID97-211)

Study Chairman: Peter W. T. Pisters, MD
Study Sponsor: British Biotech, Inc.
This study is now closed to new patients.