Epidemiology and risk factors for exocrine pancreatic cancer
Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: Compared to other gastrointestinal malignancies, exocrine pancreatic cancer is a fairly common malignancy, outnumbered only by colorectal and stomach cancer in the gastrointestinal tract. However, periampullary cancers compromise a mixture of pancreatic and non-pancreatic, ampullary or periampullary cancers. Each of these has a different biology, leading to somewhat different symptoms and therefore different resectability rates, with ductal adenocarcinoma having the lowest. The focus of this review is ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas, which account for 80-90 percent of pancreatic cancers, but together with its less common variants (i.e. mucinous noncystic carcinoma, signet-ring cell carcinoma, adenosquamous carcinoma and undifferentiated carcinoma) it comprises 90-95 percent of all primary pancreatic neoplasias.
Source: Annals of Gastroenterology
Authors: A. A. Sandberg, Dag Hoem, C Dervenis
Institution: Haukeland University Hospital
Language: English
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2168211469