Dear Doctor: What is a Whipple procedure, and what are the common risks associated with it?

Could you please give me your thoughts on Whipple surgery? I’d mainly like to know the risks of using robotics in the surgery ...
Healthline

What Is the Whipple Procedure?

Despite advances in cancer treatment, pancreatic cancer still has a poor prognosis and has one of the lowest survival rates of any cancer. The Whipple procedure, also called a pancreaticoduodenectomy, ...
6abc News

Improvements to a mainstay of pancreatic cancer could lead to faster recovery

Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most challenging cancers to fight. But improvements in a long-standing procedure are helping doctors chip away at it. David Young's wife first noticed something ...
Insurancenewsnet.com

New Data from Columbia University Illuminate Findings in Managed Care (Associations Between Patient Characteristics and Whipple Procedure Outcomes Before and After ...

2023 JUN 14 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- Investigators publish new report on Managed Care. According to news originating from New York City, New York, by ...
Healio

VIDEO: What’s in a name? How a disease, procedure both bear the name Whipple

In this Endo-Sketch, a Healio video series on clinical conditions named after famous colleagues, Klaus Mergener, MD, of the University of Washington School of Medicine, discusses the origin of the ...