Table 2.
Clinicopathologic Details
| Histology |
Stage |
||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Patients | Adenocarcinoma | Other | Unknown1 | Stage I/II | Stage III | Stage IV | Unknown1 | Staging System |
| Fiorentini | 20 | 20 | - | - | - | 12 | 8 | - | NR |
| Muchmore | 12 | 11 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 12 | NR |
| Link | 32 | 28 | 4 | - | - | 17 | 15 | - | UICC |
| Lorenz | 17 | 17 | - | - | 2 | 10 | 5 | - | UICC |
| Maurer | 12 | 12 | - | - | - | 6 | 6 | - | UICC |
| Klapdor | 28 | - | - | 28 | - | - | 20 | 8 | NR |
| Homma | 31 | 31 | - | - | - | - | 31 | - | UICC |
| Bayar | 14 | - | - | 14 | - | 5 | 9 | - | NR |
| Ohigashi | 32 | - | - | 32 | - | 32 | - | - | UICC |
| van Ijken | 21 | - | - | 21 | - | 15 | 6 | - | NR |
| Aigner | 265 | - | - | 265 | - | 112 | 153 | - | UICC |
| Takamori | 24 | - | - | 24 | - | 3 | 21 | - | NR |
| Barletta | 32 | 32 | - | - | - | 7 | 25 | - | NR |
| Mambrini | 211 | 203 | 8 | - | - | 99 | 112 | - | UICC |
| Meyer | 17 | - | - | 17 | - | 7 | 10 | - | NR |
| Guadagni | 22 | 20 | 2 | - | - | 14 | 8 | - | NR |
| Ikeda | 33 | 19 | - | 14 | - | - | 33 | - | NR |
| Ishikawa | 20 | - | - | 20 | - | - | 20 | - | NR |
| Milandri | 19 | 17 | 2 | - | - | 10 | 9 | - | NR |
| Nakchbandi | 17 | 17 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 13 | - | UICC |
| Sasada | 16 | 9 | - | 7 | - | 12 | 4 | - | JPS3/TNM |
1
Unreported or not confirmed prior to therapy; not discernible from manuscript
2
UICC, International Union Against Cancer
3
Japan Pancreas Society; TNM, tumor, node, metastasis.
NR, not reported.