Development of chemotherapy and significance of conversion surgery after chemotherapy in unresectable pancreatic cancer

While surgery currently remains the only potentially curative treatment available for pancreatic cancer, only 20% to 30% of patients have resectable disease at diagnosis. Recently, with the introduction of intensive chemotherapy regimens such as oxaliplatin, irinotecan, fluorouracil plus leucovorin...

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Published in:	Journal of hepato-biliary-pancreatic sciences Vol. 25; no. 5; pp. 261 - 268
Main Authors:	Furuse, Junji, Shibahara, Junji, Sugiyama, Masanori
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Japan Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.05.2018
Subjects:	Adult Aged Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols - therapeutic use Cancer therapies Chemotherapy Disease-Free Survival Distant metastasis Female Humans Male Metastasis Middle Aged Neoadjuvant Therapy - methods Neoplasm Invasiveness - pathology Neoplasm Staging Pancreatectomy - methods Pancreatectomy - mortality Pancreatic cancer Pancreatic Neoplasms - mortality Pancreatic Neoplasms - pathology Pancreatic Neoplasms - therapy Prognosis Risk Assessment Surgery Surgical resection Survival Analysis Distant metastasis Surgical resection Chemotherapy Pancreatic cancer
ISSN:	1868-6974, 1868-6982, 1868-6982
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