Employment and Training Administration (ETA) The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. The Department of Labor (DOL), in coordination with the U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Health and Human Services (HHS), has worked to prepare everyone for the implementation of WIOA.
Those who undergo a successful Whipple procedure may have a five-year survival rate of up to 25%. The classic Whipple procedure is named after Allen Whipple, MD, a Columbia University surgeon who was the first American to perform the operation in 1935.
This is sometimes called a pancreaticoduodenectomy. The operation consists of removing the gallbladder, part of the bile duct, the duodenum, the head of the pancreas and sometimes the lower portion of the stomach. Following the removal of these organs, the remaining portions must be reattached for proper digestion. The surgery generally takes 4 - 6 hours. The Whipple Procedure is considered, by any standard, a major surgical procedure.