Proceedings of the 46th Annual Pancreas Club Meeting
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Proceedings of the 46th Annual Pancreas Club Meeting Marshall S. Baker & Nicholas J. Zyromski
Received: 12 November 2012 / Accepted: 10 December 2012 / Published online: 8 January 2013 # 2013 The Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
Abstract The 46th annual Pancreas Club meeting was held on May 18 and 19 at the Hyatt Regency Mission Bay in San Diego, California. A brief summary of the meeting including an overview in table form is presented below. Keywords Pancreas club . Pancreatic cancer . Laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy . Tumor biology . Surgical quality
Report The 46th Annual Meeting of the Pancreas Club consisted of 51 oral presentations and 98 posters culled from a record number of 218 abstracts; 100 institutions from 18 countries were represented. Two hundred seventy-eight pancreatologists are active members of the Pancreas Club. An overview of the oral presentations is summarized in the table; abstracts for all oral presentations and posters are available at the pancreas club website, www.pancreasclub.com/finalprogram/. Highlights from each session are presented below.
Session 1: Cancer Clinical/Translational/Neuroendocrine Tumors/Emotional Impact of Pancreatic Cancer This session featured two papers drawing attention to the emotional impact of pancreatic cancer. Paper 8: The Effect of Depression on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Survival in Pancreatic Cancer was presented by Boyd from the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. These authors identified a high preexisting incidence of depression in pancreatic cancer patients. They noted that patients who M. S. Baker (*) : N. J. Zyromski Departments of Surgery, NorthShore University Health Systems and Indiana University School of Medicine, Walgreen’s Building 2nd Floor, 2650 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, IL 60201, USA e-mail: [email protected]
were depressed were less likely to receive treatment and had significantly decreased survival relative to those who were not depressed. Discussion pointed out that these data parallel similar findings seen in other studies of patients with dementia. Additional discussion raised the possibility that depression (despite this high incidence) may actually be underreported. It was clear that depression in pancreatic cancer patients is overlooked, not prioritized, and represents a potential area for clinical intervention that may improve outcomes. The subject of fear of cancer recurrence and quality of life among survivors of periampullary neoplasms from the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston was examined in paper 9: Fear of Cancer Recurrence and Quality of Life Among Survivors of Pancreatic Cancer. The authors found that 30 % of long-term cancer survivors have a pathologic fear of cancer recurrence. Discussion identified patient education and increased awareness on the part of treating physicians as the best methods to treat this fear. Additional discussion raised the possibility that depression/fear might supersede tumor biology in terms of potential for effective therapeutic interventio
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