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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Surg Today. 2020 May 30;50(10):1117–1125. doi: 10.1007/s00595-020-02028-0

Table 1:

Landmark Adjuvant and Neoadjuvant Clinical Trials in Pancreatic Cancer

Trial Accrual Sequence Comparison Median OS# Ref.
GITSG 9173 1974–1982 Adjuvant Chemoradiotherapy (Fluorouracil) vs Observation Chemoradiotherapy: 20 mo [22]
Observation: 11 mo
EORTC 40891 1987–1995 Adjuvant Chemoradiotherapy (Fluorouracil) vs Observation Chemoradiotherapy: 24.5 mo [64]
Observation: 19 mo
ESPAC-1 1994–2000 Adjuvant Chemotherapy alone (Fluorouracil) vs Chemoradiotherapy alone vs Combination vs Observation Chemotherapy: 21.6 mo [65]
Chemoradiotherapy: 13.9 mo
Combination: 19.9 mo
Observation: 16.9 mo
CONKO-001 1998–2004 Adjuvant Gemcitabine vs Observation Gemcitabine: 22.8 mo [66]
Observation: 20.2 mo
ESPAC-3 2000–2007 Adjuvant Fluorouracil vs Gemcitabine Fluorouracil: 23.0 mo [67]
Gemcitabine: 23.6 mo
JASPAC 01 2007–2010 Adjuvant S-1 vs Gemcitabine S-1: 46.5 mo [68]
Gemcitabine: 25.5 mo
ESPAC-4 2008–2011 Adjuvant Gemcitabine vs gemcitabine & capecitabine Gemcitabine & capecitabine: 28 mo [69]
Gemcitabine: 25.5 mo
PRODIGE-24 2012–2016 Adjuvant Modified FOLFIRINOX vs Gemcitabine Modified FOLFIRINOX: 54.4 mo [25]
Gemcitabine: 35 mo
APACT* 2014–2018 Adjuvant Gemcitabine & Nabpaclitaxel vs Gemcitabine Gemcitabine & Nabpaclitaxel: 40.5 mo [70]
Gemcitabine: 36.2 mo
PREOPANC-1 2013–2017 Neoadjuvant Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy (Gemcitabine) vs Upfront Surgery Chemoradiotherapy: 16 mo [48]
Upfront Surgery: 14.3 mo
Prep-02/JSAP-05 2013–2016 Neoadjuvant Neoadjuvant Gemcitabine & S1 vs Upfront Surgery Gemcitabine & S1: 36.7 mo [50]
Upfront surgery: 26.6 mo
#

Arm with significant improvement in overall survival (OS) is shown in bold.

*

Preliminary results