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15 lis 2022 · Dr. Truty says patients who are able to have surgery to remove their pancreatic cancer can live significantly longer, but in cases where the tumor has grown outside of the pancreas to encase critical blood vessels, pancreatic cancer has been considered inoperable.
22 gru 2021 · Patients <60 years underwent resection of the tumour more often (22 vs. 14% p < 0.001), more often received chemotherapy, and had a better median OS (6.9 vs. 3.3 months, p < 0.001) compared to older patients.
Overall survival of patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer according to patient age (P=0.039). In the univariate analysis, elderly patients had poorer outcomes compared to younger patients (median survival, 114 vs. 198 days, respectively; P=0.04) ().In addition, patients with a poor performance status, high CA19-9 and CEA levels, jaundice, leukocytosis and unresponsiveness to chemotherapy ...
4 wrz 2018 · A number of retrospective, post-hoc and subset analyses investigated whether age itself might influence survival, or predict efficacy and tolerability of chemotherapy in advanced pancreatic cancer, raising several issues and unanswered questions on management of the elderly population (Table 2). Ref. Study.
The prognosis of pancreatic cancer is extremely poor, with an average 5-year survival rate of less than 7% . It can have distant metastasis in the early stage, and is likely to invade local nerves and blood vessels.
26 lis 2018 · Currently, localized disease offers the only chance for cure. Unfortunately, only about 10% of diagnoses are made at the localized stage, largely because symptoms are nonspecific until advanced stage. Because of this, five-year overall survival for pancreatic cancer remains dismally low at 8% [1].
1 paź 2021 · Pancreatic cancer (PCA) is a lethal disease with poor prognosis and relatively limited treatment options. In the USA, it is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths among both men and women, with approximately 57,000 new patients diagnosed and 47,000 patients dying every year [1].
