It was first identified in 2014 in a pancreatic transplant patient in New Jersey.
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Why aren't pancreatic transplants a suitable form of treatment for pancreatic cancer that has not metastasized elsewhere?
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Six days after the surgery, Landanno left the hospital, as early or earlier than the recipients of other pancreatic transplants at UMass Memorial, according to Harland.
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"It's really a very small percentage who qualify, " said Dr . Connie Davis, medical director of the kidney and kidney-pancreatic transplant program at the university.
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"Right now we are doing pancreatic transplants that are fairly successful, but would like to replace these with a machine, " said Dr . George L . Siegel, a clinical endocrinologist who practices in Manhattan.