“…According to previous studies (Decker et al, 2011;Adams et al, 2012), pancreatic cancer patients who received metal stent biliary drainage had a better patency, and lower incidence of complications than those treated by plastic biliary stent. Therefore, in this study, all patients were treated with metal stent biliary drainage, and the results showed that jaundice was significantly improved a week after the biliary drainage to basically normal total bilirubin levels.…”