[Early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and its clinical significance from prognostic point of view].
Clinical significance of early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer was studied from the prognostic point of view, based on 18 surgically resected cases which had been obtained and pathologically proven in a period of 3 years from 1978 to 1980 at the Cancer Institute Hospital. The resectability was 45.0% of all laparotomized cases (18/40). Of these, 4 cases with the greatest diameter larger than 4 cm and 7 cases with the largest diameter smaller than 4 cm invading the pancreatic capsule died within 2 years after surgery, while 6 cases without lymph node metastasis and without the capsular invasion have survived until present. It is considered that detection of a cancer limited to pancreas without lymph node metastasis may leads to the improvement of the prognosis.
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D011379:Prognosis