Preoperative bile duct stenting reduces survival in resectable pancreatic cancer

Background Resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) of the pancreatic head oftentimes comes with obstructive jaundice driving clinicians to perform preoperative biliary stenting. Moreover, increasing numbers of patients are treated with neoadjuvant treatment strategies necessitating routine pretreatment biliary drainage. However, an emerging number of studies indicates that preoperative biliary stenting is associated with increased...