Abstract
During the 15-year period between January 1971 and December 1985, our department performed surgical operations on 44 patients for cancer of the gallbladder, 22 for bile duct cancer, 53 for cancer of the pancreas and 10 for cancer of Papilla Vateri.
Resectability was 52.3% for gallbladder cancer, 54.5% for bile duct cancer, 13.2% for pancreatic cancer and 100% for cancer of Papilla Vateri. Curative resection rate were 20.5%, 18.2%, 1.9% and 80%, respectively.
Cancer of the pancreas was the lowest both in resectability and curative resection rate, and none of the patients survived longer than two years.
Some of the patients with gallbladder cancer in Stages I and II survived longer. Many of bile duct cancers were not curatively resected because cancer cells were positive in surgical margins of bile duct. In the cases of cancer of Papilla Vateri, prognosis was fairly good.
