Squamous cell carcinoma of the pancreas: A systematic review and pooled survival analysis
| Autor: | Charitini Salla, Despoina Georgiadou, Olga Riccioni, Prodromos Kanavidis, Theodora Psaltopoulou, Theodoros N. Sergentanis, Ioannis Ntanasis-Stathopoulos, Diamantis I. Tsilimigras |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Oncology
Adult Male Cancer Research medicine.medical_specialty Pancreatic squamous cell carcinoma Kaplan-Meier Estimate 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pancreatic cancer Internal medicine Epidemiology medicine Humans Intermediate Grade Survival analysis Aged Aged 80 and over business.industry Proportional hazards model Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery Tumor Burden Pancreatic Neoplasms Systematic review medicine.anatomical_structure Treatment Outcome 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Carcinoma Squamous Cell 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology Female business Pancreas |
| Zdroj: | European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990). 79 |
| ISSN: | 1879-0852 |
| Popis: | The diagnosis and treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the pancreas pose dilemmas in the clinical practice. The present study was performed according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. Eligible articles were sought in MEDLINE up to 30th April 2016. A pooled Cox regression analysis was performed to evaluate factors potentially associated with overall survival (OS) and relapse-free survival (RFS). Fifty-four cases of pure squamous cell pancreatic carcinomas were identified in total. The mean age was 61.9 years, and most patients were males (61.1%). The median OS was 7 months. Resectability (p = 0.003) and more recent publication year (p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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