Progress in neoadjuvant and transformation therapy of pancreatic cancer / 中华外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is a malignant disease with considerable metastatic potential.While surgical resection can be potentially curative, tumor recurrence remains an important cause of treatment failure.Neoadjuvant chemotherapy can increase rate of resectability by decreasing tumor burden and decrease recurrence rate by clearing microscopic disease in lymph nodes and vessels.Currently, neoadjuvant therapy is recommended for patients with resectable who has signs of high risks or borderline resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma.However, no consensus exists in current literature on the evaluation of treatment response or operative timing.FOLFIRINOX has recently emerged as an effective chemotherapy regimen in several large clinical trials.