Pancreatic cancer is a highly lethal disease in gastrointestinal malignant tumors. The mortality of pancreatic cancer closely parallels its incidence. Most patients with pancreatic cancer remain asymptomatic until the disease reaches an advanced stage. There is no program for screening patients at high risk of pancreatic cancer. Although CT, MRI, positron emission tomography, endoscopic ultrasonography, and endoscopic ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration offer high diagnostic ability for pancreatic cancer, it cannot be found at the early stage easily. Surgical resection is regarded as the only potentially curative treatment and adjuvant chemotherapy is given after surgery. This article reviews epidemiology, risk factors, diagnosis and treatment for pancreatic cancer by summarizing relevant literature.
胰腺癌是恶性程度极高的消化道肿瘤，其病死率与发病率接近，早期症状较隐匿，诊断时大多已是晚期。目前尚无胰腺癌早期高风险因素筛查的标准，虽然CT，MRI，正电子发射断层显像/CT，超声内镜及超声内镜引导下的细针穿刺均用于胰腺癌的诊断，但早期诊断仍困难。手术切除是唯一可根治的治疗方式，但术后预后差；术后化疗方案在不断更新。.