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Prognosis of distal pancreatic cancers controlled by stage

  • Authors:
    • Guopei Luo
    • Kaizhou Jin
    • He Cheng
    • Meng Guo
    • Yitao Gong
    • Zhiyao Fan
    • Chao Yang
    • Qiuyi Huang
    • Quanxing Ni
    • Chen Liu
    • Xianjun Yu
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  • Published online on: May 26, 2020     https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2020.8795
  • Pages: 1091-1097
  • Copyright: © Luo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Abstract

Patients with distal (body/tail) pancreatic cancer have been found to present worse outcome than patients with head cancer, which is generally attributed to the great proportion of advanced stages for body/tail cancers upon detection. However, differences in prognosis between head and body/tail pancreatic cancers controlled by stage have not been analyzed in‑depth. In this study, differences in prognosis between head and body/tail pancreatic cancers were examined using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER) (1973‑2014 registry, 85,715 cases). We found that patients with body/tail pancreatic cancer had worse prognosis than patients with head cancer for all combined stages [adjusted hazard ratio (HR), 1.03, 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.00‑1.05, P=0.025]. Compared with patients with head cancer, patients with body/tail cancer had lower mortality for stage I cancers (HR, 0.85, 95% CI, 0.76‑0.94, P=0.001), no difference in mortality for stages II or III (stage II, HR, 1.00, 95% CI, 0.95‑1.06, P=0.965; stage III, 0.97, 95% CI, 0.91‑1.04, P=0.398), and higher mortality for stage IV (HR, 1.07, 95% CI, 1.04‑1.10, P<0.001). In addition, the proportion of body/tail pancreatic cancer increased from 24.9% in 1973 to 36.3% in 2014. Therefore, tumor location of body/tail is an independent adverse prognostic factor for patients with pancreatic cancer. However, this observation is not applicable when controlled by stage (body/tail versus head pancreatic cancer, better stage I, similar stage II/III, and worse stage IV).
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Luo G, Jin K, Cheng H, Guo M, Gong Y, Fan Z, Yang C, Huang Q, Ni Q, Liu C, Liu C, et al: Prognosis of distal pancreatic cancers controlled by stage. Exp Ther Med 20: 1091-1097, 2020
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Luo, G., Jin, K., Cheng, H., Guo, M., Gong, Y., Fan, Z. ... Yu, X. (2020). Prognosis of distal pancreatic cancers controlled by stage. Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, 20, 1091-1097. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2020.8795
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Luo, G., Jin, K., Cheng, H., Guo, M., Gong, Y., Fan, Z., Yang, C., Huang, Q., Ni, Q., Liu, C., Yu, X."Prognosis of distal pancreatic cancers controlled by stage". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 20.2 (2020): 1091-1097.
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Luo, G., Jin, K., Cheng, H., Guo, M., Gong, Y., Fan, Z., Yang, C., Huang, Q., Ni, Q., Liu, C., Yu, X."Prognosis of distal pancreatic cancers controlled by stage". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 20, no. 2 (2020): 1091-1097. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2020.8795