A Digest of the Pancreatic Cancer Registry Report 2007

We here provide a digest of the Pancreas Cancer Report 2007, a detailed analysis of 28655 cases with pancreatic neoplasms registered from 1981 to 2004 by the Japan Pancreas Society. This summary includes a new survival curve of IPMN according to the depth of cancer. We compared JPS and UICC classifications for the survival estimation not only for invasive cancer but also for IPMN, MCN, and endocrine tumors in various aspects. The survival of patients with pancreatic cancer improved especially in 2001-2004 cases compared to the cases in 1980s and 1990s. The JPS classification showed better survival estimation than the UICC classification, especially for patients with IPMN, MCN and endocrine tumor.