Unresectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma with complete clinical response following chemoradiotherapy
Turkish Journal of Surgery, cilt.31, sa.1, ss.49-51, 2015 (Scopus, TRDizin)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 31 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2015
- Doi Numarası: 10.5152/ucd.2014.2210
- Dergi Adı: Turkish Journal of Surgery
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.49-51
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Pancreas, adenocarcinoma, resectability, chemotherapy
- Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Locally advanced or metastatic disease is present in 2/3s of patients with pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer patients are assessed as resectable, potentially resectable (borderline) and unresectable according to pre-operative examinations. The chance for operability may be enhanced by using adjuvant-neoadjuvant systemic chemotherapy, radiotherapy or both. The rates of R0 resection may be increased by means of treatment delivered this way. This case report presents a pancreatic adenocarcinoma case that was assessed to be resectable but was identified to be unre-sectable during surgical exploration, thus received adjuvant chemoradiotherapy. The patient was then re-evaluated, identified as resectable and received pancreaticoduodenectomy.