From: Pancreatic Cancer Treatment (PDQ®)
PDQ Cancer Information Summaries [Internet].
Bethesda (MD): National Cancer Institute (US); 2002-.
NCBI Bookshelf. A service of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.
Table 6. Treatment Options for Pancreatic Cancer
| Clinical Stage | Treatment Options |
|---|---|
| Resectable or borderline resectable pancreatic cancer | Neoadjuvant therapy |
| Surgery | |
| Postoperative chemotherapy | |
| Postoperative chemoradiation therapy | |
| Preoperative chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy (under clinical evaluation) | |
| Alternative radiation techniques (under clinical evaluation) | |
| Locally advanced pancreatic cancer | Chemotherapy with or without targeted therapy |
| Chemoradiation therapy | |
| Surgery | |
| Palliative surgery | |
| Clinical trials evaluating novel agents in combination with chemotherapy or chemoradiation therapy for patients with unresectable tumors | |
| Intraoperative radiation therapy and/or implantation of radioactive sources (under clinical evaluation) | |
| Metastatic or recurrent pancreatic cancer | Chemotherapy with or without targeted therapy |
| Clinical trials evaluating new anticancer agents alone or in combination with chemotherapy |