To our knowledge, there are no studies to systematically compare the detailed clinical significance between curatively resected pancreatic head (ph) and body-tail (pbt) ductal adenocarcinoma based on the new 8th edition of AJCC staging system (8th AJCC stage) that was just applied in clinical practice in 2018. | The diversity between curatively resected pancreatic head and body-tail cancers based on the 8th edition of AJCC staging system A multicenter cohort study