title: Five-year survival following a medial pancreatectomy for an invasive ductal carcinoma from the body of the pancreas.
abstract: We report a rare case of a patient who survived for 5 years after undergoing a medial pancreatectomy for invasive ductal carcinoma originating from the body of the pancreas. A 63-year-old woman was diagnosed as a small cancer of the pancreatic body, and surgery was performed. Even though the tumor was a carcinoma, its small size prompted us to perform a medial pancreatectomy with regional lymph nodes dissection. Additional chemoradiation was performed and, five years after surgery, the patient is well with no signs of recurrence. Medial pancreatectomy for invasive ductal carcinoma has not ever been reported. Furthermore, long-term survival after a lumpectomy for invasive ductal carcinoma has never been reported in the literatures. The current case suggests that long-term survival in patients with invasive ductal carcinoma of the pancreas may be associated with the pathological or biological features of pancreatic carcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 1138655 Japan. hidekiab-tky@umin.ac.jp
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: Kouichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsuneyama
authors.forename: Kazuhiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsukada
authors.forename: Masatoshi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Makuuchi
mesh_terms: D021441:Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010180:Pancreatectomy; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*