- Tempero, Margaret A;
- Arnoletti, J Pablo;
- Behrman, Stephen W;
- Ben-Josef, Edgar;
- Benson, Al B;
- Casper, Ephraim S;
- Cohen, Steven J;
- Czito, Brian;
- Ellenhorn, Joshua DI;
- Hawkins, William G;
- Herman, Joseph;
- Hoffman, John P;
- Ko, Andrew;
- Komanduri, Srinadh;
- Koong, Albert;
- Ma, Wen Wee;
- Malafa, Mokenge P;
- Merchant, Nipun B;
- Mulvihill, Sean J;
- Muscarella, Peter;
- Nakakura, Eric K;
- Obando, Jorge;
- Pitman, Martha B;
- Sasson, Aaron R;
- Tally, Anitra;
- Thayer, Sarah P;
- Whiting, Samuel;
- Wolff, Robert A;
- Wolpin, Brian M;
- Freedman-Cass, Deborah A;
- Shead, Dorothy A
The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma discuss the workup and management of tumors of the exocrine pancreas. These NCCN Guidelines Insights provide a summary and explanation of major changes to the 2012 NCCN Guidelines for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma. The panel made 3 significant updates to the guidelines: 1) more detail was added regarding multiphase CT techniques for diagnosis and staging of pancreatic cancer, and pancreas protocol MRI was added as an emerging alternative to CT; 2) the use of a fluoropyrimidine plus oxaliplatin (e.g., 5-FU/leucovorin/oxaliplatin or capecitabine/oxaliplatin) was added as an acceptable chemotherapy combination for patients with advanced or metastatic disease and good performance status as a category 2B recommendation; and 3) the panel developed new recommendations concerning surgical technique and pathologic analysis and reporting.