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Whipple procedure

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A type of surgery used to treat pancreatic cancer.

The head of the pancreas, the duodenum, a portion of the stomach, and other nearby tissues are removed.

The Whipple procedure is named for Allen O.

Whipple, an American surgeon, 1881-1963 (not George Whipple, the Nobel Prize-winning pathologist, who described Whipple disease).

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