Pancreatic islet cell transplantation as a treatment for diabetes has hitherto been confined to small patient cohorts with limited success.

胰岛移植作为治疗糖尿病的一种治疗手段，迄今只能在少部分病人中实施，效果尚难完整评估。

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First, Jobs's neuroendocrine tumor, also called an islet cell tumor, put him outside the 95 percent of pancreatic cancer victims who have highly fatal adenocarcinoma.

首先，乔布斯患有神经内分泌肿瘤，也被称为胰岛细胞瘤，不是95%高致病性的胰腺癌。

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DATA SYNTHESIS: Therapeutic methods of diabetes included mainly drug treatment, injection of insulin, pancreatic stem cell transplantation and islet stem cell transplantation.

资料综合：糖尿病的治疗方法主要包括药物治疗、胰岛素注射、胰腺器官移植和胰岛细胞移植。

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But Jobs suffered from a rarer and less fatal form of the disease, called islet cell pancreatic cancer.

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The procedure, known as pancreatic islet transplantation, involves injections of healthy islets, or cell clusters, that release insulin.

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