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