Endoscopic Diagnosis and Treatment in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Cancers
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Methods and Technologies Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2025 | Viewed by 34
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ERCP; contrast EUS; EUS-FNA; EUS; pancreatic cancer; biliary tract cancer
Interests: ERCP; BE-ERCP; EUS; EUS-FNA; pancreatic cancer; biliary tract cancer
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Dear Colleagues,
The endoscopic diagnosis and treatment of hepato-pancreato-biliary cancers have seen significant progress in recent years. These procedures are primarily performed using endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and interventional endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS). The ERCP technique, which includes cholangiography, pancreatography, tissue sampling, drainage treatment, and the pancreatic duct approach, has a long history but is continuing to evolve with advancements in devices.
Interventional EUS serves both diagnostic purposes, such as EUS-guided fine-needle aspiration (FNA) and contrast-enhanced EUS, and therapeutic purposes, including EUS-guided drainage. The development of interventional EUS has significantly transformed strategies for the endoscopic diagnosis and treatment of hepato-pancreato-biliary cancers. In the context of EUS-FNA, the advancement of fine-needle biopsy (FNB) needles and their potential applications in comprehensive genomic profiling have become prominent topics of discussion. While the utility of contrast-enhanced EUS has been widely reported, recent years have also seen increasing attention on new blood flow evaluation functions. Regarding EUS-BD, an EUS-guided drainage technique for hepato-pancreatic and biliary cancers, there is growing interest in whether advancements in EUS-BD devices will lead to this technique becoming a more widely adopted procedure.
It is crucial to evaluate and summarize the current state of endoscopic diagnosis and treatment in hepatopancreatic and biliary cancers and to identify future challenges.
This Special Issue will highlight the latest advances in these areas, assessing the usefulness of new techniques and equipment developments, as well as the current role of long-standing methods.
Dr. Mamoru Takenaka
Prof. Dr. Hirofumi Kogure
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cancer
- ERCP
- EUS
- interventional EUS
- contrast-enhanced EUS
- EUS-BD
- EUS-FNA
- EUS-FNB
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