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. 2023 Feb 27;17(5):698–710. doi: 10.5009/gnl220311

Table 3.

Prospective Study on Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer before Radical Resection

Author/trial Year Resectability Treatment No. of patients Primary outcome Median HR (95% CI) p-value
Jang et al.48 2018 BR CRT (54 Gy, GEM) → surgery → GEM 27 2-yr survival 40.7% 0.51 (0.27–0.93) 0.028
Surgery → GEM 23 26.1%
Unno et al. Prep-02/JSAP0549-51 2019 R/BR-PV GEM + S-1 → surgery → S-1 182 OS 36.7 mo 0.72 (0.55–0.94) 0.02
Surgery → S-1 180 26.6 mo
Versteijne et al. PREOPANC-152,53 2020 R/BR CRT (36 Gy, GEM) → surgery → GEM 119 OS 15.7 mo 0.73 (0.56–0.96) 0.025
Surgery → GEM 127 14.3 mo
Takahashi et al. JASPAC0554 2020 R/BR CRT (54 Gy, S-1) → surgery 52 R0 (OS) 52% (30.8 mo) - -
Yamaguchi et al. NUPAT-0155 2022 BR mFOLFIRINOX → surgery 26 R0 73.1% - 0.202
GEM + nab-PTX → surgery 25 56.0%
Katz et al. A02150156 2022 BR mFOLFIRINOX → surgery → FOLFOX6 65 18-mo survival 66.7% - -
mFOLFIRINOX → SBRT (33-40 Gy) or HIGRT (25 Gy) → surgery → FOLFOX6 55 47.3%

HR, hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval; BR, Borderline Resectable; CRT, chemoradiotherapy; GEM, gemcitabine; R, resectable; PV, portal vein; OS, overall survival; mFOLFIRINOX, modified FOLFIRINOX; nab-PTX, nab-paclitaxel; SBRT, stereotactic body radiation therapy; HIGRT, hypofractionated image-guided radiation therapy.