**Meet the editor**

Dr. Luis Rodrigo, MD, is an emeritus professor of Medicine at the University of Oviedo (Spain). He has been the chief of the Gastroenterology Service at HUCA in Oviedo for more than 40 years. He obtained his PhD degree in 1975 and developed a long teaching and research career. He has published a total of 575 scientific papers, 293 in English and the rest in Spanish. He participated as

the main investigator in a total of 45 clinical trials and directed 40 doctoral theses. He contributed actively in the formation of around 100 specialists in Gastroenterology working in his hospital and other hospitals in Spain and abroad. He has written around 35 book chapters on several subjects and has been the editor of 22 books in his speciality and related diseases.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Etiopathogenesis and Diagnosis 1**

Vanags and Janis Gardovskis

**Adenocarcinoma 3**

**Challenges 31**

Perez

Chapter 1 **Systemic Inflammatory Response in Pancreatic Ductal**

Chapter 2 **Pancreatic Cancer, Leptin, and Chemoresistance: Current**

Chapter 3 **Sporadic Pancreatic Cancer: Glucose Homeostasis and Pancreatogenic Type 3 Diabetes 53**

Chapter 4 **Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer 73**

Chapter 5 **Irreversible Electroporation in Pancreatic Cancer 97**

Chapter 6 **Enhanced Electric Pulse Technology for the Ablation of**

Strickland and Eva Segelov

**Section 2 Types of Treatment 95**

Mathias Worni

**Pancreatic Cancer 115**

Arturs Silovs, Ilze Strumfa, Reinis Riekstins, Zane Simtniece, Andrejs

Adriana Harbuzariu, Gabriela Oprea-Ilies and Ruben R. Gonzalez-

Jan Škrha, Přemysl Frič, Petr Bušek, Pavel Škrha and Aleksi Šedo

Cameron John McLaren, Daphne Day, Daniel Croagh, Andrew

Melanie Holzgang, Benjamin Eigl, Suna Erdem, Beat Gloor and

Siqi Guo, Niculina I. Burcus, Chelsea M. Edelblute, James Hornef, Chunqi Jiang, Karl Schoenbach, Richard Heller and Stephen J. Beebe
