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Table 1 Definitions of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) and Dutch Pancreatic Cancer Group (DPCG) for locally advanced pancreatic cancer

From: Radiofrequency ablation and chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone for locally advanced pancreatic cancer (PELICAN): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

 

Arterial involvement

Venous involvement

NCCN criteria

SMA and celiac trunk involvement > 180°, aortic involvement

Unreconstructable PV/SMV occlusion

DPCG criteria

SMA, celiac trunk or hepatic artery involvement > 90°

PV/SMV involvement > 270° or occlusion

  1. NCCN National Comprehensive Cancer Network, DPCG Dutch Pancreatic Cancer Group, SMA superior mesenteric artery, PV portal vein, SMV superior mesenteric vein
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