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

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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Veröffentlicht in:Case reports in oncology 2013-09, Vol.6 (3), p.497-503
Hauptverfasser: 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
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Sprache:eng
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Acinar cell carcinoma
Autologous stem cell transplantation
Ductal adenocarcinoma
FOLFIRINOX
Multimodal treatment
Pancreatic cancer
Pancreatoblastoma
Published: September 2013
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1662-6575
1662-6575
DOI:10.1159/000355320