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<strong>KCE</strong> Reports 113 Volume Outcome 65<br />
5.3 PANCREATIC CANCER SURGERY<br />
5.3.1 G<strong>en</strong>eral <strong>de</strong>scription of procedure<br />
Surgical removal of the pancreas (i.e. pancreatectomy) is still the only chance of longterm<br />
survival for pati<strong>en</strong>ts with pancreas cancer. Belgian gui<strong>de</strong>lines, which were rec<strong>en</strong>tly<br />
published in <strong>KCE</strong> report 105, recomm<strong>en</strong>d that “pati<strong>en</strong>ts with resectable pancreatic<br />
cancer who are fit for surgery should un<strong>de</strong>rgo radical pancreatic resection<br />
(pancreaticoduod<strong>en</strong>ectomy for pancreatic head tumours and distal pancreatectomy for<br />
pancreatic body and tail tumours)”. 154<br />
5.3.2 Primary data selection in MCD 2004<br />
First selection of data was based on ICD-9-CM diagnostic and procedure co<strong>de</strong>s as<br />
pr<strong>op</strong>osed by Glasgow et al., and on NIHDI procedure co<strong>de</strong>s. 155<br />
In addition to the ICD-9-CM diagnosis co<strong>de</strong> for pancreatic cancer (157), co<strong>de</strong>s for<br />
malignant ne<strong>op</strong>lasm of duod<strong>en</strong>um (1520), of extrahepatic bile ducts (1561) and of<br />
ampulla of Vater (1562) were ad<strong>de</strong>d to the selection criteria.<br />
The rationale of this elaborate selection is that pati<strong>en</strong>ts can be labelled with the latter<br />
diagnoses at the <strong>en</strong>d of their hospital stay - and be co<strong>de</strong>d as such in the MCD - on the<br />
basis of suspicious lesions that were visualised with medical imaging. It is oft<strong>en</strong> only a<br />
few days after the hospitalisation that the final diagnosis can be attributed on the basis<br />
of the results of the hist<strong>op</strong>athologic examination of the tumour. Therefore, it was<br />
<strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong>d to make a broad selection at the level of MCD.<br />
Figure 5.8: Pancreas and surrounding organs<br />
Source: Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)<br />
This selection resulted in a total of 4 949 stays (Table 5.18). This selection is too broad<br />
since it also inclu<strong>de</strong>s pati<strong>en</strong>ts with a secondary diagnosis of malignant ne<strong>op</strong>lasm. This<br />
implies that pati<strong>en</strong>ts with pancreatic cancer as pre-existing condition are also inclu<strong>de</strong>d<br />
(see section 4.2.1, page 39). The <strong>de</strong>finition of the p<strong>op</strong>ulation studied (i.e. pati<strong>en</strong>ts with a<br />
principal diagnosis of malignant ne<strong>op</strong>lasm of pancreas who un<strong>de</strong>rw<strong>en</strong>t surgical resection<br />
of the pancreas) will be <strong>de</strong>fined in the next section.