[Stress tolerance of pancreatic cancer patients]

The patient with pancreatic carcinoma is tested in 4 phases: during diagnosis the non-invasive procedures take precedence; as regards pre-operative treatment, primary biliary decompression seems to bring no advantages in the icteric patient; the indications for various treatment forms show a resectability rate of only 13%; the final test is the mortality rate of the treatment selected: in 200 duodenopancreatectomies it amounted to 2.5%.