Largest study of its kind reveals adjuvantchemotherapy improves overall survival for pancreaticcancer patients CUAnschutz JAMAOnc
Is there a survival benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma after multiagent neoadjuvant chemotherapy?In this cohort study of 888 propensity score–matched patients who received multiagent neoadjuvant therapy, patients who received adjuvant chemotherapy survived significantly longer than patients who did not receive adjuvant chemotherapy . The benefit varied by age, pathological T category, and tumor differentiation.
Patients were excluded if they had clinical or pathological stage IV disease or died within 90 days of their operation.All included patients received NAC and underwent resection for primary PDAC. Some patients received adjuvant chemotherapy.The main outcome was the OS of patients who received AC vs those who did not . Interactions between pathological findings and AC were investigated in separate multivariable Cox regression models.
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