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Summary
The report describes a patient who presented to our centre with abdominal pain and significant weight loss due to adenocarcinoma of the tail of the pancreas. The cancer was deemed as ‘resectable disease associated with morbid surgical outcomes’ due to the local involvement of the vessels and adjacent organs. Given the patient’s excellent performance status, the patient underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy with folinic acid, fluorouracil, irinotecan and oxaliplatin to downstage the tumour for less morbid surgical resection. The patient underwent 12 cycles of chemotherapy with serial imaging which demonstrated positive response to treatment and surgical resection was performed. Surgical pathology revealed no residual tumour and imaging was negative for any extrapancreatic tumour metastasis. This is an unusual case as pancreatic malignancy is usually lethal with poor survival outcomes.
- pancreatic cancer
- cancer intervention
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Contributors C-TK was involved in reviewing the patient medical records, acquisition of data, reviewing previously published literature and drafting the manuscript. He also obtained the figures. MA helped with interpretation of data and edited the content. He also reviewed additional literature and helped with formatting. He obtained patient consent. AK was involved in the conception and design of the case report. He revised it critically for important intellectual content before providing the final approval. He agrees to be accountable for the article and to ensure that all questions regarding the accuracy or integrity of the article are investigated and resolved.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent Obtained.
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