Life expectancy and quality of life after surgical treatment of pancreatic cancer – Our experience within 12 years

Introduction: Adenocarcinoma of the pancreas still has one of the worst prognosis among solid tumors. Its mortality rate is at the 5th rank among malignant diseases. The rate of resecability is very poor, the possibility of curative resection is only 10–15% of all cases. Even with the development of modern surgical methods and decreased perioperative mortality-morbidity, the 5-years survival among patients underwent successful surgical resection is still under 10%. Newly introduced chemotherapic drugs in the adjuvant-neoadjuvant treatment resulted a slight increase of the mean-survival in different groups of the…