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Clinical Outcomes of Surgery After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer

Completed
Conditions
Postoperative Complications
Interventions
Procedure: surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy
Registration Number
NCT05888129
Lead Sponsor
Asan Medical Center
Brief Summary

The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical outcomes of patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LA-PC) who underwent surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) at Asan Medical Center's Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery from 2017 to 2020.

Detailed Description

Pancreatic cancer (PC) has a very low survival rate. Most PC patients have non-specific symptoms that are advanced enough to be contraindications for surgical treatment; therefore, surgery is often impossible by the time PC is diagnosed. According to the NCCN guidelines, PCs with no metastases can be divided into resectable, borderline resectable , and locally advanced cases. Patients with borderline resectable PC (BR-PC) and locally advanced PC (LA-PC) currently receive multimodal therapy before surgery. The goal of these neoadjuvant treatments, including chemotherapy and radiation therapy, is to ultimately reduce local recurrence after surgery in patients with BR-PC and further improve their survival time. Additionally, several recent studies have reported results on the prognosis when surgery is performed after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) in patients with LA-PC. In the patients with LA-PC, surgery technically difficult because of major vascular invasion before NACT. Therefore, this study investigated the clinical outcomes of patients with LA-PC who underwent surgery after NACT. Additionally, the investigators evaluated factors affecting the prognosis related to survival after surgery in patients with LA-PC.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
1
Inclusion Criteria
  • The study population consists of patients who underwent pancreatectomy for pancreatic adenocarcinoma between January 2017 and December 2020
Exclusion Criteria
  • None

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
borderline resectable pancreatic cancersurgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapyBorderline resectable pancreatic cancer (BR-PC) is classified according to the NCCN guidelines. Patients with the above conditions underwent surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
locally advanced pancreatic cancersurgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapyLocally advanced pancreatic cancer (LA-PC) is classified according to the National Comprehansive Cancer Networks (NCCN) guidelines. Patients with the above conditions underwent surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
oncologic outcome3 - 5 years after surgery

overall survival and recurrence free survival according to the groups

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Asan medical center

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Seoul, Korea, Republic of

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