Matsuoka Tasuku, Yashiro Masakazu
Tasuku Matsuoka, Masakazu Yashiro, Department of Surgical Oncology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka 545-8585, Japan.
World J Gastroenterol. 2016 Jan 14;22(2):776-89. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v22.i2.776.
Pancreatic cancer is the fourth most common cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Although recent therapeutic developments for patients with pancreatic cancer have provided survival benefits, the outcomes for patients with pancreatic cancer remain unsatisfactory. Molecularly targeted cancer therapy has advanced in the past decade with the use of a number of pathways as candidates of therapeutic targets. This review summarizes the molecular features of this refractory disease while focusing on the recent clinical and experimental findings on pancreatic cancer. It also discusses the data supporting current standard clinical outcomes, and offers conclusions that may improve the management of pancreatic cancer in the future.
胰腺癌是全球第四大常见癌症死因。尽管近期针对胰腺癌患者的治疗进展带来了生存获益,但胰腺癌患者的治疗结果仍不尽人意。在过去十年中,分子靶向癌症治疗取得了进展,多种信号通路被用作治疗靶点的候选对象。本综述总结了这种难治性疾病的分子特征,同时重点关注胰腺癌最近的临床和实验研究结果。它还讨论了支持当前标准临床疗效的数据,并得出可能改善未来胰腺癌治疗管理的结论。