Eight Year Survival Case of Pancreatic Body and Head Carcinoma in stage IVb with Postoperative Irradiation

Abstract

A 55-year-old woman with stage IV b pancreatic body and head carcinoma undergoing pancreatic tumor resection and postoperative irradiation experienced recurrence at the left cervical lymph node and underwent radiation therapy. She has remained diseasefree in the 8 years since surgery. It seemed that the long time survival reasons were the surgical resection for no residual tumor and postoperative irradiation. This shows that patients with stage IV b pancreatic carcinoma and progressive local or lymphatic spread but no liver metastasis or venous invasion, may experience long time survival after pancreatic tumor resection and postoperative irradiation.