This study was aimed to assess the proportion and causes of misdiagnosis of pancreatic cancer (PC), and the effects of misdiagnosis on and treatment of PC, so as to sum up experiences and improve the diagnosis and treatment. 1027 cases with confirmed diagnosis of PC were retrospectively analyzed in detail. The patients were divided into misdiagnosed group and a group with correct diagnosis. The relevant data of the two groups were analyzed by stastical methods, and the differences between them were assessed. It was found that 586 cases (57 1%) were misdiagnosed.Fifty five diseases were involved in misdiagnosis, among them gastritis and duodenitis, peptic ulcer, virus hepatitis, cholecystitis and cholelithiasis, chronic pancreatitis wese the commonest. The differences of duration of diagnosis, main symptoms, resection rate, and half year survival rate between misdiagnosed group and correct diagnosis group were significant. It is concluded that PC is often misdiagnosed as other diseases. Early diagnosis and treatment is critical to the prognosis. The physician should be aware that PC may present a veriety of clinical manifestations, and therefore he or she should analyze comprehensively the symptoms and signs in order to improve diagnosis and treatment.

To study the correlation between pancreatic cancer and ABO blood groups in Chinese Hans. A case control study comprising 691 pancreatic cancer patients and 1199 hospitalized non neoplastic controls and 40980 normal controls was studied. The value of OR and its 95% CI to estimate the relative risk of ABO blood groups to cancer patients was calculated. The results showed blood group A was a risk factor of pancreatic cancer(OR=1 29, 95%CI=1 01～1 64), and blood group B individuals seems to be unsusceptible to pancreatic cancer(OR=0 74, 95%CI=0 57～0 96) compared with the hospitalized non neoplastic controls, but there was no relation of ABO blood groups to pancreatic cancer when compared with the normal controls in both sexes.

To study the clinical features of the pancreatic cancer (PC), clinical symptoms of 1027 diagnosed cases of PC were retrospectively analyzed in detail, including their dynamic changes with regards to the patients'sexes, ages, blood types, and tumor locations in the pancreas. The results showed that abdominal pain, jaundice and epigastric discomfort were the prevailing initial symptoms in these 1027 cases. Abdominal pain, jaundice, weight loss, and anorexia were the main symptoms. Unusual symptoms were seemed to be different in different patients. The clinical symptoms could be dramatically different with difference in patients′ age and tumor location. The blood type might also infhluence the clinical symptoms in certain degree. It is concluded that the clinical symptoms of the PC were atypical in general, but still there were some characteristics.The physician should grasp these characteristic symptoms in order to make an early diagnosis.

Both Chinese GB nutrient agar and American FDA standard method agar are commonly used for counting bacteria in food inspection. A number of our experiments showed that the count of bacteria by FDA standard method agar is 23.9% higher than that by GB nutrient agar. The present C8 medium is an improved medium based on the composition of the two media mentioned above The result of our comparison experiment showed that the C8 medium used for counting bacteria was 35.8% higher than that by GB nutrient agar and 9.5% higher than that by FDA standard method agar respectively.