Whipple surgery

Johns Hopkins Medicine surgeon Dr. John Cameron, right, performs his 2000th Whipple surgery, a life-saving treatment for <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="HEDAI0000059" title="Pancreatic Cancer" href="/topic/health/diseases-illnesses/pancreatic-cancer-HEDAI0000059.topic">pancreatic cancer</a>, today. Along the way Cameron has improved the procedure and reduced the death rate during surgery from 25 percent to about 1 percent.
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( Baltimore Sun photo by Kenneth K. Lam / March 30, 2012 )

Johns Hopkins Medicine surgeon Dr. John Cameron, right, performs his 2000th Whipple surgery, a life-saving treatment for pancreatic cancer, today. Along the way Cameron has improved the procedure and reduced the death rate during surgery from 25 percent to about 1 percent.

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