Prolonged Survival in a Patient with a Pancreatic Acinar Cell Carcinoma

Case Rep Oncol. 2015 Oct 22;8(3):447-50. doi: 10.1159/000441414. eCollection 2015 Sep-Dec.

Abstract

Pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma (ACC) is a rare entity. Herein we present the case of a 50-year-old male patient with an unlimited mass on the pancreatic corpus and tail with peripancreatic effusion and multiple metastases in the liver and spleen. A liver biopsy showed a pancreatic ACC. The patient received 9 cycles of gemcitabine plus oxaliplatin (GEMOX regimen), which had to be stopped because of a persistent grade 2 neuropathy. A CT scan showed complete response after 14 years. At the age of 61 years, a localized prostatic cancer was diagnosed, treated by prostatectomy. The patient carried a BRCA2 mutation. None of the precedent case reports describe a chemosensibility to the GEMOX regimen. In spite of the lack of study in these patients, chemotherapy with oxaliplatin seems to be the most effective. Long survival can be expected.

Keywords: BRCA2 mutation; Long-term survival; Pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma.

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