[Multimodal treatment of pancreatic cancer]

The experience with combined treatment of 122 patients with pancreatic cancer in the clinic of the Institute of Clinical & Experimental Surgery for the period of from 1988 to 1990 is summarized. Radical operations were performed in 54 patients, the palliative ones--in 68. After performance of a palliative operation, the patients underwent polychemotherapy, 5--in combination with UHF-hyperthermia. To study the effect of chemotherapy on the immune system, the immunologic monitoring was carried out. It was established that under the influence of chemotherapy and hyperthermia, the indices of immunity in patients with pancreatic cancer improved. In cancer of the pancreatic head with involvement of pancreatic body, the performance of subtotal pancreatoduodenal resection with subsequent regional chemotherapy is expedient. Chemotherapy and hyperthermia in combination with creation of a shunt permit to improve the results of treatment of inoperable tumors. The use of regional chemotherapy in subtotal resection contributed to increase in 2-year survival of the patients.