Pancreatic cancer: a review and update.

摘要: Pancreatic cancer will account for about 6% of all cancer-related deaths in 2008. Patients often present with advanced disease, so treatment remains a challenge. This article review the risk factors, pathology features, clinical symptoms, diagnosis and staging guidelines, treatment, nursing implications pancreatic cancer. also studies that have precipitated shift systemic from 5-fluorouracil to gemcitabine. Targeted therapies further strategies improve survival as more is learned molecular basis