Effect of Nanoknife Ablation Therapy in Patients with Pancreatic Cancer

Abstract

This study was established to explore the therapeutic effect of nanoknife ablation in the treatment of pancreatic cancer with comprehensive perioperative nursing. The clinical data of 92 patients with pancreatic cancer who underwent nanoknife ablation surgery in The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University and Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center from January 2015 to December 2018 were retrospectively studied. These 92 patients were randomly and equally divided into a group with comprehensive perioperative nursing care and a group with routine nursing care. After the intervention period, the satisfaction with the nursing, serum albumin, total protein, and hemoglobin levels, length of hospital stay, and incidence of postoperative complications were compared between the two groups. Meanwhile, blood biochemical indicators and related immune indicators of 30 patients in the comprehensive nursing group were analyzed and compared between before and after the operation. Results: The hospitalization time of patients in the routine care group was significantly longer than that in the comprehensive care group (P < 0.05). Meanwhile, the levels of albumin, total protein, and hemoglobin in the serum of patients in the comprehensive care group were significantly higher than those in the routine care group (P < 0.05). All patients exhibited a certain increase in serum amylase level on the day after the operation, which then gradually decreased. There was no statistically significant difference in myocardial enzyme indexes at different time points before and after the operation. The glycoprotein antigen tumor markers carbohydrate antigen (CA)-19-9 and CA-242 increased on the 1st day after surgery, and gradually decreased thereafter. This study indicated that the safety of nanoknife ablation in patients with pancreatic cancer is relatively high. In addition, there is a clear clinical effect of comprehensive nursing care in the perioperative period, which can effectively improve the levels of albumin, total protein, and hemoglobin, shorten the hospitalization time, and reduce the incidence of postoperative complications. Such nursing care also relieved the tumor-related immunosuppression after surgery and significantly decreased the levels of tumor markers.