• Department of Pancreatic Surgery, Digestive Vascular Surgery Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi 830054, P. R. China;
XU Xinjian, Email: xxj0991@163.com
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Objective To summarize the current status and progress of nutritional support therapy for pancreatic cancer in order to improve the understanding of the impact of nutritional support treatment on pancreatic cancer and guide clinical work.Method The literatures about nutritional support and chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer at home and abroad were read and reviewed.Results For most patients with malignant pancreatic tumors, nutritional risk or malnutrition might accompany them for a lifetime. Regular nutritional risk screening, timely nutritional assessment and necessary nutritional treatment played an extremely important role in the process of comprehensive anti-tumor treatment.Conclusion Although there are still some core problems to be solved in nutritional support therapy and chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer, its efficacy is gradually recognized and widely used by clinical workers, which might be helpful to improve the prognosis of patients with pancreatic cancer.

Citation: XU Xinjian. Research status and progress of nutritional support therapy for pancreatic cancer. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2021, 28(4): 556-560. doi: 10.7507/1007-9424.202006136 Copy

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