Up-to-Date Tailored Systemic Treatment in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

Autor: Caroline Y. K. Fong, Emma Burke, David Cunningham, Naureen Starling
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Zdroj: Gastroenterology Research and Practice, Vol 2019 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1687-6121
1687-630X
DOI: 10.1155/2019/7135437
Popis: Despite intensive research efforts, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is still regarded as an aggressive and life-limiting malignancy. Combination chemotherapy regimens that underpin the current treatment approach in the advanced setting have led to incremental survival gains in recent years but have failed to confer patients with a median overall survival that exceeds 12 months from diagnosis. Research has since focussed on understanding the role and interplay between various components of the desmoplastic stroma and tumour microenvironment, in addition to developing targeted therapies based on molecular features to improve the prognosis associated with this malignancy. This review will summarise the available systemic treatment options and discuss potential methods to refine the resolution of patient selection to enhance responses to currently available therapies. Furthermore, it will explore newer approaches anticipated to come to the fore of future clinical practice, such as agents targeting the DNA damage response and tumour microenvironment as well as immunotherapy-based combinations.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals
Externí odkaz:
Nepřihlášeným uživatelům se plný text nezobrazuje