Methods for treating pancreatic cancer

Treatment of pancreatic cancer: Although many pancreatic cancer patients are diagnosed in the middle and late stages, the treatments for middle-stage pancreatic cancer include surgical resection, radiotherapy, endocrine therapy, and traditional Chinese medicine. Usually, patients in the middle stage before IIIA still have the opportunity for surgical resection. The surgical resection rate of pancreatic cancer cases after that is low, and the overall prognosis is poor, so other systemic middle-stage treatment methods should be considered.

1. Surgical treatment of mid-stage pancreatic cancer Surgical treatment methods include extended radical pancreatic cancer resection and pancreatic cancer combined organ resection. The former includes regional pancreaticoduodenectomy and regional total pancreatectomy, while the latter is mainly suitable for mid-stage pancreatic cancer cases with adjacent tissue infiltration. The purpose of surgical treatment of mid-stage pancreatic cancer is to cure the tumor, relieve the patient's pain, improve the patient's quality of life, and prolong the patient's life.
2. Radiotherapy methods for mid-stage pancreatic cancer Three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy is a new technology in the treatment of mid-stage pancreatic cancer. This method greatly reduces the degree of radiation damage to normal tissues and adjusts the dose based on the principle of protecting the liver and kidneys by 75%.
3. Endocrine therapy for mid-stage pancreatic cancer It is currently believed that estrogen receptors exist in pancreatic cancer tissue and normal tissue cells.