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ReviewTherapeutic advances in medical oncology2024

A narrative review on rare types of pancreatic cancer: should they be treated as pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas?

Victor Hugo Fonseca de Jesus, Mauro Daniel Spina Donadio, Ângelo Borsarelli Carvalho de Brito, Arthur Conelian Gentilli

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Review in Therapeutic advances in medical oncology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Imaging of pancreatic hepatoid adenocarcinoma: a scoping review.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Victor Hugo Fonseca de JesusOncoclínicas, Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, Santos Dumont St. 182, 4 floor, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina 88015-020, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4702-116X
Mauro Daniel Spina DonadioOncoclínicas, Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, São Paulo, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4705-4802
Ângelo Borsarelli Carvalho de BritoDepartment of Medical Oncology, A.C. Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, Brazil.
Arthur Conelian GentilliDepartment of Pathology, Centro de Pesquisas Oncológicas, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest malignancies in humans and it is expected to play a bigger part in cancer burden in the years to come. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) represents 85% of all primary pancreatic malignancies. Recently, much attention has been given to PDAC, with significant advances in the understanding of the mechanisms underpinning disease initiation and progression, along with noticeable improvements in overall survival in both localized and metastatic settings. However, given their rarity, rare histological subtypes of pancreatic cancer have been underappreciated and are frequently treated as PDAC, even though they might present non-overlapping molecular alterations and clinical behavior. While some of these rare histological subtypes are true variants of PDAC that should be treated likewise, others represent separate clinicopathological entities, warranting a different therapeutic approach. In this review, we highlight clinical, pathological, and molecular aspects of rare histological types of pancreatic cancer, along with the currently available data to guide treatment decisions.

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PMID39072242
PMCPMC11282540

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