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The Pancreatic Cancer Specialty Care Center brings together a multidisciplinary team of leading experts in surgical oncology, gastroenterology, medical oncology, radiation oncology, nutrition, pain, and palliative care. Treatment strategies are developed in tandem with referring physicians, and often involve surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or a combination of treatments and clinical trials when appropriate.
The Pancreatic Cancer Specialty Care Center offers patients and their families genetic counseling and advanced diagnostic testing, including endoscopic ultrasound and innovative clinical trials that are investigating the newest technologies for detecting pancreatic disease.
Surgery is the only known treatment for pancreatic cancer that has a definite, positive impact on survival of this disease. Our surgeons have extensive experience in performing a variety of advanced pancreatic surgical techniques, including:
Medical oncologists specializing in pancreatic and gastrointestinal cancers offer a full range of chemotherapy and biologic targeted therapies for all types and stages of cancer, and access to the latest clinical trials through our collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI).
When appropriate, pancreatic cancer patients are placed on a clinical pathway, a disease-specific treatment strategy developed by UPMC Cancer Centers physicians to ensure that all patients receive the same evidence-based care. Each pathway combines innovative and promising clinical trial options with the best standard of care therapies. Ongoing review by the clinical team ensures that each pathway remains to be the best and most effective treatment option available.
Patients have access to the largest variety of advanced radiation planning and delivery systems available in western Pennsylvania.
