Treatment for pancreatic cancer resources for health professionals

Presentations for you

• Surgical treatment options – Lisa Woodrow, PCUK Specialist Nurse (presented at Supporting your patients from diagnosis to treatment, 16th May 2023)
• Surgery for pancreatic cancer – Phil Whelan, Macmillan Pancreatic Cancer CNS, Royal Liverpool University Hospital (presented at Supporting patients with pancreatic cancer, 10th March 2022)

Information for your patients

• Booklet: Pancreatic cancer that can be removed by surgery. A guide if you have just been diagnosed
• Fact sheet: Surgery to remove pancreatic cancer
• Fact sheet: Bypass surgery if you have pancreatic cancer
• Webpage: Surgery for pancreatic cancer
  

Presentations for you

• Side effects of chemotherapy webinar, 24th October 2024
• Non-surgical treatment options – Lynne McCallum, Specialist Pancreatic Cancer Nurse, Pancreatic Cancer UK (presented at Supporting your patients from diagnosis to treatment, 16th May 2023)
• Non-surgical treatment of pancreatic cancer – Dawn Elliott, Lead UGI/CUP Clinical Nurse Specialist/Lead for UGI Cancer, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (presented at Supporting patients with pancreatic cancer, 10th March 2022)

Information for your patients

• Webpage: Chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer
• Fact sheet: Chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer
• Information sheets:
  • FOLFIRINOX 
  • Gemcitabine
  • Capecitabine
  • Nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane)
  • FOLFOX
  • FOLFIRI
  • Oxaliplatin
    

Radiotherapy

Presentation for you

• Developments in pancreatic cancer – Non-surgical treatment, 5th March 2024 (this includes a session on SABR)

Information for your patients

• Fact sheet: Radiotherapy for pancreatic cancer
• Webpage: Radiotherapy for pancreatic cancer
  

Irreversible electroporation (NanoKnife®)

Presentation for you

• Non-surgical treatment options: Ablative therapies, 26th October 2022, IRE – Nicola de Liguori-Carino, Consultant Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgeon, Manchester Royal Infirmary

Information for your patients

• Fact sheet: Irreversible electroporation (Nanoknife®)
• Webpage: Irreversible electroporation (NanoKnife®) for pancreatic cancer 

Focus Ultrasound

Presentation for you

• Developments in pancreatic cancer – Non-surgical treatment, 5th March 2024 (this includes a session on Focus Ultrasound)

Information for your patients

• Webpage: Stent for a blocked bile duct
• Fact sheet: Stents to treat jaundice caused by a blocked bile duct
• Webpage: Stents for a blocked duodenum
• Fact sheet: Stents for a blocked duodenum