Up-to-Date Tailored Systemic Treatment in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.

ABSTRACT: Despite intensive research efforts, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is still regarded as an aggressive and life-limiting malignancy. Combination chemotherapy regimens that underpin the current treatment approach in the advanced setting have led to incremental survival gains in recent years but have failed to confer patients with a median overall survival that exceeds 12 months from diagnosis. Research has since focussed on understanding the role and interplay between various components of the desmoplastic stroma and tumour microenvironment, in addition to developing targeted therapies based on molecular features to improve the prognosis associated with this malignancy. This review will summarise the available systemic treatment options and discuss potential methods to refine the resolutio

SUBMITTER: Fong CYK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6748185 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature