Guidelines and useful links

Links to guidelines and specialist sites related to the treatment of pancreatic cancer

United Kingdom

NICE Guidance - The use of gemcitabine in the treatment of pancreatic cancer

NICE Guidelines -Referral for suspected cancer

NHS Executive report on "Improving Outcomes in Upper Gastrointestinal Cancers" on Department of Health website

NICE - End of life care for adults with cancer quality standard

NICE - Patient experience in adult NHS care guideline

Guidelines produced as supplements to Gut - An international Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Gut is the official journal of the British Society of Gastroenterology)

Information on Tumour markers from Lab Test Online

Information on CA 10-9 from GPnotebook

Cancer Handbook - pancreas

Oxford Textbook of Oncology - Second Edition

Cancer pain from Bandolier

Consultants's special interests, clinics and contact information from specialistinfo.com

Consultants' special interests, clinics and contact info (www.specialistinfo.com)

 

Review Papers

Current standards of surgery for pancreatic cancer N. Alexakis, C. Halloran, M. Raraty, P. Ghaneh, R. Sutton, J. P. Neoptolemos British Journal of Surgery Vol 91 pp1410-1427 2004

Review article:chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer S. Shore, M.G.T. Raraty, P. Ghanah & J.P. Neoptolemos Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2003: 18: 1049-1069

Recent developments in diagnosis of pancreatic cancer Arjun S Takhar, Ponni Palaniappan, Rajpal Dhingsa, Dileep N LoboBMJ 2004;329:668-673

Meta-analysis of randomised adjuvant therapy trials for pancreatic cancer, D D Stocken, M W Büchler, C Dervenis, C Bassi, H Jeekel, J H G Klinkenbijl, K E Bakkevold, T Takada, H Amano and J P Neoptolemos, on behalf of the Pancreatic Cancer Meta-analysis Group British Journal of Cancer (2005) 92, 1372-1381.

 

Presentations

The Royal Society of Medicine - Stephens Lecture 2011: Pancreatic Cancer, Challenges and Hopes, Professor Robin Williamson

 

USA

NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology

  • Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
  • Hepatobiliary cancers
  • Neuroendocrine tumours

Gemcitabine (NIH Medline)

Abstracts on pancreatic cancer from Annual Meetings of American Society of Clinical Oncology - contains info on research and trial results

Review papers

Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer: Emerging Strategies in Chemotherapy and Palliative Care Francois G. El Kamar, Michael L. Grossbard, Peter S. Kozuch from The Oncologist February 2003

Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America October 2004 (Vol. 13, Issue 4) Adjuvant Therapy of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Guest Editor: J.P. Hoffman

Other sources of professional information

Pancreatica.org

Last updated August 2011

page first created 5th December 2004