The long term results and survival prognostic factors of surgical treatment ampulla Vateri cancer

: Results of radical operative treatment of 21 patients with ampulla Vateri cancer are presented. Within the first 30 days after pancreaticoduodenal resection 2 (9.5%) patients have died. The long-term results were studied at 19 (90.4%) patients. The one-year, the three-year and five-year survival percentage was 89.4, 57.8 and 36.8% accordingly. The median of life expectancy is equal to 44 months. Factors having prognostic value for survival rate are the stage of disease, metastatic regional spread, tumor invasion in a head of a pancreas, microscopic picture of a pancreatitis in a phase of acute condition. However, the only independent factor of the prognosis for a disease is the stage of neoplastic process.