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Pancreatic Cancer

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Authors:
  1. Hanno Riess

    1. Medizinische Klinik mit Schwerpunkt Hämatologie und Onkologie, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany

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  2. Andrea Goerke

    1. Medizinische Klinik mit Schwerpunkt Hämatologie und Onkologie, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany

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  3. Helmut Oettle

    1. Medizinische Klinik mit Schwerpunkt Hämatologie und Onkologie, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany

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Part of the book series: Recent Results in Cancer Research (RECENTCANCER, volume 177)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Pancreatic Cancer: Step by Step Forward

    1. Pancreatic Cancer: Step by Step Forward

      • Hanno Riess, Andrea Goerke, Helmut Oettle
      Pages 1-2

  3. Diagnosis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-3
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    2. CT and MR Imaging of Pancreatic Cancer

      • Christian Stroszczynski, Robert Grützmann, Thomas Kittner
      Pages 5-14

    3. Nuclear Medical Methods for the Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer: Positron Emission Tomography

      • Holger Amthauer, Juri Ruf
      Pages 15-26

  4. Therapy and Monitoring of Disease

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Surgical Techniques for Resectable Pancreatic Cancer

      • Marcus Bahra, Ulf Neumann
      Pages 29-38

    3. Postoperative Staging of Pancreatic Cancer

      • Christoph Röcken, Matthias P. A. Ebert
      Pages 39-48

    4. Adjuvant Therapy in Patients with Pancreatic Cancer

      • Lars Roll
      Pages 49-56

    5. First-Line Chemotherapy in Advanced Pancreatic Cancer

      • Uwe Pelzer
      Pages 57-60

    6. Second-Line Chemotherapy in Advanced Pancreatic Cancer

      • Uwe Pelzer
      Pages 61-64

    7. Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Strategies for Chemoradiation

      • Andreas Kaiser, Volker Budach
      Pages 65-77

    8. Primary Advanced Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer

      • Ralf Wilkowski, Maria Wolf, Volker Heinemann
      Pages 79-93

    9. Brachytherapy of Liver Metastases

      • Timm Denecke, Enrique Lopez Hänninen
      Pages 95-104

    10. Detection of Disease Recurrence and Monitoring of Therapy

      • Juri Ruf, Holger Amthauer
      Pages 105-110

    11. Surgical Palliation of Advanced Pancreatic Cancer

      • Marcus Bahra, Dietmar Jacob
      Pages 111-120

  5. New Treatment Strategies and Outlook

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Antiangiogenic Strategies in Pancreatic Cancer

      • Hanno Riess
      Pages 123-129

    3. Targeted Therapy of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor in the Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer

      • Steffen Heeger
      Pages 131-136

    4. Antisense Therapeutics for Tumor Treatment: The TGF-beta2 Inhibitor AP 12009 in Clinical Development Against Malignant Tumors

      • Karl-Hermann Schlingensiepen, Birgit Fischer-Blass, Susanne Schmaus, Sylvia Ludwig
      Pages 137-150
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About this book

Although pancreatic cancer is one of the most serious forms of cancers, the outlook for patients could be improved. The lack of clinical symptoms of early, surgically removable disease most often limits curative treatment options. The aggressive tumor cell biology, leading to a locally advanced nature of the disease and to early metastases, allows curative resection in only 20% of patients at the time of diagnosis. This book gives insight into the current understanding of the management of pancreatic cancer and considers recent findings in cancer research. It provides answers to questions of how to know when cancer is respectable, how to proceed when the diagnosis comes too late for a curative approach, and how to assess different study results. Moreover, it highlights new upcoming therapeutic options and experimental approaches, which might further improve the future prospects for patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Medizinische Klinik mit Schwerpunkt Hämatologie und Onkologie, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany

    Hanno Riess, Andrea Goerke, Helmut Oettle

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pancreatic Cancer

  • Authors: Hanno Riess, Andrea Goerke, Helmut Oettle

  • Series Title: Recent Results in Cancer Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71279-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-71266-4Published: 22 November 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09034-9Published: 19 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-71279-4Published: 17 November 2007

  • Series ISSN: 0080-0015

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-6767

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 186

  • Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Oncology, Gastroenterology

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