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An Orthotopic Resectional Mouse Model of Pancreatic Cancer
Published on: September 24, 2020
[An example case that chemoradiotherapy was succeeded for unresectable pancreas cancer]
Yusuke Kawashima1, Hiroyuki Horiuchi, Masanori Akashi
1Dept. of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine.
Background:
Prognosis of pancreas cancer is extremely poor. For unresectable pancreas cancer, there has not been an effective method of treating. In our institution, the mean survival time was 13 . 6 months for a chemoradiotherapy case that used gemcitabine (GEM), but was 7.3 months for a non-treatment case in locally advanced and metastatic pancreas cancer. This time, we experienced a good case for unresectable pancreas cancer treated with chemoradiotherapy using GEM/S-1 that clearly exhibited a decrease in tumor size by tumor marker.
