This content is machine translated Gastrointestinal Cancer Conference, St. Gallen Pancreatic cancer: without surgery, patients have little chance of survival The second day of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Conference in St. Gallen focused on pancreatic cancer. In terms of its incidence, pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers. While the prognosis…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Surgical therapy of pancreatic carcinoma Life extension through multimodal therapy and center-based treatment Since the first description of a pancreatic resection by the Königsberg surgeon Walter Kausch in 1909, pancreatic surgery has developed into an interdisciplinary center treatment. Pancreatic surgery is the only…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Current therapy 2014 Surgical update on pancreatic cancer. The goal of surgery for pancreatic cancer is to remove the tumor in healthy tissue with the best possible safety distance of the tumor margin from the resection surfaces. Resectable…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Surgical therapy of pancreatic carcinoma Extended resections – vessels, neighboring organs, recurrences The only chance of long-term survival in pancreatic cancer is radical resection (R0) with adjuvant chemotherapy. To achieve radical resection, extended surgery with resection of the venous porto-mesenteric vessels as…
