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. 2018 Apr 20;9(30):21613–21627. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.25085

Table 4. Top 8 articles investigating therapies in patients that present with locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC), ranked according to median overall survival (OS) achieved.

OS Title Reference Patients Phase Randomization R0 resection
29 months (arterial involvement), 42+ months (venous involvement) Neoadjuvant gemcitabine, docetaxel, and capecitabine followed by gemcitabine and capecitabine/radiation therapy and surgery in locally advanced, unresectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma Sherman et al. Cancer 2015 45 III No 67% (arterial involvement), 73% (venous involvement)
26.6 months in LAPC Final analysis of a phase II study of modified FOLFIRINOX in locally advanced and metastatic pancreatic cancer Stein et al. Br J Cancer 2016 75 II No 41.9%
12.3 months in all treated patients, 19.5 months with a dose of 1 mg/kg Phase I Clinical Trial to Determine the Feasibility and Maximum Tolerated Dose of Panitumumab to Standard Gemcitabine-Based Chemoradiation in Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Van Zweeden et al. Clin Cancer Res 2015 14 I No Not determined
18.8 months Baseline metabolic tumor volume and total lesion glycolysis are associated with survival outcomes in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer receiving stereotactic body radiation therapy Dholakia et al. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2014 32 II No Not determined
18.4 months LAPC, 14.4 months BRPC The Role of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer: A Single-Institution Experience. Moningi et al. Ann Surg Oncol. 2015 88 (74 LAPC) No 84% margin negative, 16% pathologic complete response

CRT indicates chemoradiotherapy, IC indicates induction chemotherapy, and BRPC indicates borderline resectable pancreatic cancer. Rates of achieving microscopic tumor clearance (R0) with resections are also displayed.