Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma, version 2.2012: featured updates to the NCCN Guidelines.

Publication/Presentation Date

6-1-2012

Abstract

The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma discuss the workup and management of tumors of the exocrine pancreas. These NCCN Guidelines Insights provide a summary and explanation of major changes to the 2012 NCCN Guidelines for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma. The panel made 3 significant updates to the guidelines: 1) more detail was added regarding multiphase CT techniques for diagnosis and staging of pancreatic cancer, and pancreas protocol MRI was added as an emerging alternative to CT; 2) the use of a fluoropyrimidine plus oxaliplatin (e.g., 5-FU/leucovorin/oxaliplatin or capecitabine/oxaliplatin) was added as an acceptable chemotherapy combination for patients with advanced or metastatic disease and good performance status as a category 2B recommendation; and 3) the panel developed new recommendations concerning surgical technique and pathologic analysis and reporting.

Volume

10

Issue

6

First Page

703

Last Page

713

ISSN

1540-1413

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

PubMedID

22679115

Department(s)

Hematology-Medical Oncology Division

Document Type

Article

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