Hodaka Amano

TL;DR: A randomized controlled study evaluated the effect of postoperative adjuvant therapy with mitomycin C and 5‐fluorouracil versus surgery alone (control arm) on survival and disease‐free survival (DFS) for each specific disease comprising resected pancreaticobiliary carcinoma (pancreatic, gallbladder, bile duct, or ampulla of Vater carcinoma) separately.

TL;DR: Although hepatectomy and/or pancreaticoduodenectomy are preferable for the curative resection of biliary duct cancer, extrahepatic bile duct resection alone is also considered in patients for whom it is judged that curatives would be achieved after a strict diagnosis of its local extension.

TL;DR: F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) has been suggested as a promising modality for noninvasive differentiation between benign and malignant lesions.

TL;DR: Carbon ion RT with concurrent full-dose gemcitabine was well tolerated and effective in patients with unresectable locally advanced pancreatic cancer.

TL;DR: Management of postoperative arterial hemorrhage after pancreato-biliary surgery should be done according to the site of bleeding and the initial operative procedure, and careful consideration is required for indication of interventional radiology for bleeding from SMA after pancreatectomy and hepatic artery after major hepatctomy with bilioenteric anastomosis.