Systemic therapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive disease with an extremely unfavorable prognosis. The only effective method of treatment for this cancer is chemotherapy. The introduction of combined chemotherapy regimens and the development of molecular oncology in recent years have changed approaches to the treatment of this tumor. This review presents current literature data, as well as the data from the N. N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology, concerning modern aspects of the treatment for metastatic pancreatic cancer.