Author(s)

Nazem Shams, Mahmoud Mosbah, Mohammad Hegazy, Osama Hussein, Omar Farouk, Sameh Roshdy, Mohamed Tarek Hafez, Ashraf Khater, Khaled Abdel Wahab

Oncology Center, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.

Background: Pancreatic cancer is the fourth most common cause of cancer related deaths in the world. Surgical resection remains the only potentially curative treatment for adenocarcinoma of the pancreas; only 10% - 20% of patients are candidate for standard pancreatic resection. Objective: To evaluate perioperative mortality, morbidity and survival for patients underwent PD in middle-volume center. Patients and Methods: Sixty patients with pancreatic tumors were enrolled in this study for different surgical procedure according to type of tumors. Results: No early postoperative complications were observed in 60% of patients, whereas 40% of patients developed one or more complication, the median survival for this group was 12.3 months with standard deviation 3.8 months.

Pancreatic Cancer; Whipple; Complication; Survival

N. Shams, M. Mosbah, M. Hegazy, O. Hussein, O. Farouk, S. Roshdy, M. Hafez, A. Khater and K. Wahab, "Evaluation of Surgical Outcome after Resection of Pancreatic Tumors, Our Experience in Mansoura Oncology Center, a Middle-Volume Center in Egypt," Journal of Cancer Therapy, Vol. 3 No. 5, 2012, pp. 477-481. doi: 10.4236/jct.2012.35061.