Chinese expert consensus of image-guided irreversible electroporation for pancreatic cancer

Yingtian Wei, Yueyong Xiao, Zhongmin Wang, Xiaokun Hu, Guang Chen, Xiaoyi Ding, Yong Fan, Yue Han, Kaiwen Huang, Xuequan Huang, Ming Kuang, Xu Lang, Hailiang Li, Chengli Li, Jiakai Li, Jiaping Li, Maoquan Li, Yinying Lu, Caifang Ni, Lizhi Niu, Junhui Sun, Jinlin Tian, Hao Wang, Liwei Wang, Peihong Wu, Xiaoyan Xie, Wenge Xing, Linfeng Xu, Po Yang, Haipeng Yu, Chunwang Yuan, Bo Zhai, Yanfang Zhang, Jiasheng Zheng, Zhigang Zhou, Xiaoli Zhu, Tianan Jiang, Yingxun ZhangJournal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics 2021 17(3):613-618 Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a lethal disease with extremely high mortality. Although surgical resection is the optimal therapeutic approach for PC, about 30%–40% of those patients are not candidates for surgical resection when diagnosed. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy also could not claim a desirable effect on PC. The application of interventional radiology approaches is limited by unavoidable damage to the surrounding vessels or organs. By the superiority of mechanism and technology, IRE could ablate the tumor by creating irreversible pores on the membrane of PC cells with other tissues like vessels and pancreatic ducts untouched. This consensus gathers the theoretical basis and clinical experience from multiple Chinese medical centers, to provide the application principles and experience from Chinese experts in the IRE field.
Source: Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Source Type: research