Successful Salvage Chemotherapy with FOLFIRINOX for Recurrent Mixed Acinar Cell Carcinoma and Ductal Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas in an Adolescent Patient

Pancreatic tumors are rare in children and adolescents. Here, we report the case of a 15-year-old boy who presented with a mixed acinar cell carcinoma/ductal adenocarcinoma with blastomatous components. He received multimodal treatment including various chemotherapy regimens and multistep surgery in...

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Autores principales: Pfrommer, Sarah, Weber, Achim, Dutkowski, Philipp, Schäfer, Niklaus G., Müllhaupt, Beat, Bourquin, Jean-Pierre, Breitenstein, Stefan, Pestalozzi, Bernhard C., Stenner, Frank, Renner, Christoph, D'Addario, Giannicola, Graf, Hans-Jörg, Knuth, Alexander, Clavien, Pierre-Alain, Samaras, Panagiotis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2013
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Published online: September, 2013
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3806674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24163668
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000355320
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Sumario:Pancreatic tumors are rare in children and adolescents. Here, we report the case of a 15-year-old boy who presented with a mixed acinar cell carcinoma/ductal adenocarcinoma with blastomatous components. He received multimodal treatment including various chemotherapy regimens and multistep surgery including liver transplantation. Introduction of FOLFIRINOX after relapse repeatedly achieved a durable metabolic and clinical response with good quality of life.

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