Survival and the prognosticators of peritoneal cytology-positive pancreatic cancer patients undergoing curative resection followed by adjuvant chemotherapy

Conclusions: The number of metastatic lymph nodes is the most important prognostic factor for OS and RFS in peritoneal CY-positive pancreatic cancer patients who underwent curative resection followed by adjuvant chemotherapy. To improve the survival of these patients, it is necessary to establish optimal treatments.

http://www.cancerjournal.net/text.asp?2018/14/12/1129/194927

Source: Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics - December 11, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Toru Aoyama Yosuke Atsumi Keisuke Kazama Masaaki Murakawa Manabu Shiozawa Satoshi Kobayashi Makoto Ueno Manabu Morimoto Norio Yukawa Takashi Oshima Takaki Yoshikawa Yasushi Rino Munetaka Masuda Soichiro Morinaga Source Type: research