Lutte contre le cancer du pancréas exocrine: stagnation ou progrès ? Le point de vue de la Fondation française de cancérologie digestive (FFCD)

Summary aper updates recent trends concerning ductal pancreatic cancer. Knowledge of the cellular mechanisms has improved, and new developments in imaging allow a more accurate staging. Although operative mortality sharply decreased during these last 15 years, the prognosis of pancreatic carcinoma remains dismal, due to late diagnosis, as only one out of ten patients is considered for curative resection. Therapeutic research groups, and among them the Fondation française de cancérologie digestive (FFCD), do their best to develop new therapeutic strategies, including postoperative or preferentially pre-operative radiochemotherapeutic adjuvant treatments, and to improve chemotherapy in metastatic cancers.