Abstract:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a malignant tumor that is prone to micrometastasis, lacks obvious symptoms in early stage, but often invades the surrounding healthy tissues. The majority of patients are found to be at an advanced stage at the time of diagnosis, the 5-year survival rates of those with localized cancer and metastatic cancer are only 23% and 5%, respectively. Therefore, how to improve the survival rate of PDAC patients, optimize the therapeutic schedule and increase the cure rate are currently urgent issues. At present, operation-based multidisciplinary treatment and individualized treatment mode have become the research focuses, which include the pathogenetic mechanism, staged treatment strategy, neoadjuvant therapy and postoperative monitoring of PDAC. The authors address the research progress of various treatment methods for PDAC.