Clinical researches and developments of neoadjuvant therapy in pancreatic cancer / 中华肝胆外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Pancreatic cancer is a kind of fatal diseases with extremely poor prognosis and radical resection is the only way to treat the disease. However, the majority of patients is in advanced stage and loses the chance of surgery when diagnosed. With the application of neoadjuvant therapy, the outcome of pancreatic cancer patients is improved significantly because some patients with advanced disease regain the opportunity of surgery after treatment. Recently, the researches involving in novel regimens, the combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, the timing of surgery are hot issues. Accumulative promising results of immunotherapy and targeted therapy are reported in some malignancies, it offers new hope for pancreatic cancer patients. More high-level evidences are strongly required to improve the treatment of pancreatic cancer. Therefore, we reviewed on clinical researches and developments in neoadjuvant therapy for pancreatic cancer.