In the last years
there was an increased interest towards the pancreatic cancer, especially
considering its growing incidence (rapidly becoming the fifth cause of death by
cancer in the developed countries), lack of any sustainable
markers and/or risk factors and the chilling fact that almost 95% of the
patients with this disorder are presenting to the hospital in the advanced and
unresectable stages.
Even more,
although known and developed for almost 70 years, the surgical approach for the
pancreatic cancer is a subject of debate because its efficacy and postoperative
biological changes.
It is known that
the most common surgery in chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer is
represented by the Whipple pancreatico duodenectomy.
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