Table 1.

Outpatients visit priorities for the management of pancreatic cancer

High priority	Medium priority	Low priority
Patients with newly diagnosed resectable cancer—convert as many visits as possible to telemedicine appointments and schedule a multidisciplinary assessment in order to plan surgery	Established patients with new minor to moderate problems or symptoms—convert as many visits as possible to telemedicine appointments	Postoperative patients with no complications
Potentially unstable patients (complications in the post-surgery recovery period: anastomotic leak, bleeding, acute pancreatitis, fistulae, pneumonitis; jaundice; acute abdominal pain consistent with upper or lower intestinal occlusion; symptomatic ascites)	Follow-up visits considering patients at high risk of relapse	Established patients with no new issues
Patients newly diagnosed with non-resectable (locally advanced) or metastatic cancer and symptoms such as jaundice, pain, weight loss		Survival follow-up visits out of clinical trials