Figure 5From: Corticosteroid co-treatment induces resistance to chemotherapy in surgical resections, xenografts and established cell lines of pancreatic cancer DEX inhibits the therapeutic effect of cisplatin ex vivo . (A) Tumour cells from patients (No. 11-20) with pancreatic cancer were isolated, cultivated and analyzed as described in Fig. 4, except of that cisplatin (7, 17 34 μM) was used instead of gemcitabine.Back to article page