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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jun 19.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg Oncol. 2022 Aug 4;30(1):165–174. doi: 10.1245/s10434-022-12257-x

TABLE 2.

Pathologic and postoperative outcomes by receipt of neoadjuvant therapy (NAT) versus upfront resection (UR)

Extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
Ampullary adenocarcinoma
Duodenal adenocarcinoma
UR (N = 2357) NAT (N = 157) p UR (N = 3668) NAT (N = 94) p UR (N = 1765) NAT (N = 123) p

Pathologic stage 0.153 0.639 0.006
 I 517 (24.3%) 35 (30.2%) 1265 (37.9%) 30 (40.5%) 279 (17.3%) 5 (5.1%)
 II 1610 (75.7%) 81 (69.8%) 2076 (62.1%) 44 (59.5%) 510 (31.7%) 38 (38.4%)
 III 820 (51.0%) 56 (56.6%)
T tumor downstaging 26 (24.1%) 19 (28.4%) 29 (34.1%)
N tumor downstaging 10 (8.5%) 10 (15.2%) 17 (20.2%)
Margin positivity (R1/R2) 548 (24.1%) 25 (16.7%) 0.037 116 (3.2%) 2 (2.3%) 1.000 141 (8.2%) 9 (7.7%) 1.000
Tumor grade 0.834 0.364 0.204
 G1 276 (12.9%) 13 (14.4%) 455 (13.1%) 13 (17.8%) 151 (9.1%) 8 (7.7%)
 G2 1137 (53.0%) 45 (50.0%) 1913 (55.2%) 35 (47.9%) 919 (55.3%) 50 (48.1%)
 G3 733 (34.2%) 32 (35.6%) 1096 (31.6%) 25 (34.2%) 591 (35.6%) 46 (44.2%)
Adjuvant chemotherapy 1120 (47.5%) 38 (24.2%) 0.0001 1531 (41.7%) 28 (29.8%) 0.020 731 (41.4%) 31 (25.2%) <0.001
Length of stay, days 9 (7–14) 9 (7–15) 0.881 10 (7–15) 11 (8–14) 0.916 10 (7–16) 10 (7–15) 0.558
30-Day readmission 191 (8.3%) 11 (7.0%) 0.654 300 (8.3%) 12 (13.0%) 0.125 139 (8.0%) 14 (11.9%) 0.164
30-Day mortality 99 (4.6%) 3 (2.3%) 0.278 116 (3.5%) 1 (1.3%) 0.522 71 (4.4%) 4 (3.8%) 1.000
Follow-up time, months 22 (11–40) 26 (16–47) 0.003 31 (15–55) 31 (17–50) 0.766 28 (12–54) 31 (18–58) 0.114
Median overall survival, months 25.6 38.4 <0.001 52.9 39.6 0.579 48.3 57.8 0.24

Data are presented as n (%), or median (IQR)

UR upfront resection, NAT neoadjuvant therapy, IQR interquartile range, RT radiation therapy