A long-term survival case treated with conversion surgery following chemotherapy after diagnostic metastasectomy for pancreatic cancer with synchronous liver metastasis

A long-term survival case treated with conversion surgery following chemotherapy after diagnostic metastasectomy for pancreatic cancer with synchronous liver metastasis

Abstract Background Pancreatic cancer with distant metastases is classified as “unresectable,” for which the standard treatment is systemic chemotherapy. The effectiveness of radical resection for pancreatic cancer with distant metastases is unknown. Here, we report a case of long term survival trea...

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Main Authors: Mitsuhiro Shimura, Masamichi Mizuma, Hiroki Hayashi, Akiko Mori, Tomoyoshi Tachibana, Tatsuo Hata, Masahiro Iseki, Tatsuyuki Takadate, Kyohei Ariake, Shimpei Maeda, Hideo Ohtsuka, Naoaki Sakata, Takanori Morikawa, Kei Nakagawa, Takeshi Naitoh, Takashi Kamei, Fuyuhiko Motoi, Michiaki Unno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-12-01
Series:Surgical Case Reports
Subjects:
Pancreatic cancer
Liver metastasis
Conversion surgery
Chemotherapy
Diagnostic metastasectomy
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40792-017-0409-9

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