Current and Emerging Therapies in Pancreatic Cancer

Abstract

Pancreatic Cancer Epidemiology and Environmental Risk Factors -- Anatomy of the Pancreas and Biliary Tree -- Pathology: Preneoplastic and Neoplastic Disease and Molecular Genetics -- Screening for Pancreatic Cancer: Who to Screen and How to Follow-up? -- Staging and Prognostic Implications -- Current and Emerging Therapies in Pancreatic Cancer -- Imaging of Pancreatic Malignancies -- Advanced Endoscopic Procedures -- How to Treat Resectable Disease -- The Management of Locally Advanced Non-Metastatic Pancreas Cancer -- Cytotoxic Therapy in Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: Where We Are and Where We Are Headed -- Molecularly Targeted Therapies in Pancreatic Cancer -- Targeting the Tumor Microenvironment -- Synthetic Lethality: Achilles Heel in Select Patient Subpopulations -- Immune Therapies in Pancreatic Cancer -- Vaccine Therapy in Pancreatic Cancer -- Virotherapies in Pancreatic Cancer -- Novel Radiotherapy Modalities -- The Role for Palliative Surgical Interventions in Pancreatic Cancer -- Current and Emerging Therapies in Pancreatic Cancer: Do They Provide Value?.