After obtaining approval from the institutional review board, we retrospectively analyzed 398 patients who had undergone pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD), after neoadjuvant therapy for PDAC at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center between January 1999 to December 2012. They were identified from a database that is prospectively maintained by the Department of Surgical Oncology. A waiver of consent was granted for the use of their specimen information for research. We excluded patients who had undergone distal pancreatectomy and those who had undergone PD and neoadjuvant therapy for other neoplasms. The clinical and follow-up information such as date of diagnosis, date and site of recurrence, or date and cause of death, when applicable, was verified by reviewing patients’ medical records and the U.S. Social Security Index. Disease recurrence or metastasis was determined on the basis of radiographic and clinical suspicion, as often, biopsy confirmation had not been obtained.
Our study population consisted of 222 male and 176 female patients, with ages ranging from 34.5 years to 85.4 years (median age, 64.1 years). Seventy-four patients (18.6%) had undergone neoadjuvant fluoropyrimidine-based chemoradiation therapy (group 1), 101 (25.4%) neoadjuvant gemcitabine-based chemoradiation therapy (group 2), 102 (25.6%) systemic chemotherapy followed by gemcitabine-based chemoradiation therapy (group 3), 103 (25.9%) systemic chemotherapy followed by fluoropyrimidine-based chemoradiation therapy (group 4), and 18 (4.5%) neoadjuvant systemic chemotherapy alone (group 5,Table 1 ).
Our study population consisted of 222 male and 176 female patients, with ages ranging from 34.5 years to 85.4 years (median age, 64.1 years). Seventy-four patients (18.6%) had undergone neoadjuvant fluoropyrimidine-based chemoradiation therapy (group 1), 101 (25.4%) neoadjuvant gemcitabine-based chemoradiation therapy (group 2), 102 (25.6%) systemic chemotherapy followed by gemcitabine-based chemoradiation therapy (group 3), 103 (25.9%) systemic chemotherapy followed by fluoropyrimidine-based chemoradiation therapy (group 4), and 18 (4.5%) neoadjuvant systemic chemotherapy alone (group 5,