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ArticleJournal of gastrointestinal cancer2015

Patterns of Failure for Lymph Node-Positive Resected Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma After Adjuvant Radiotherapy or Gemcitabine-based Chemotherapy Alone.

Andrew M McDonald, Caleb R Dulaney, Javier López-Araujo, James A Posey, Kimberly S Keene, John D Christein, Martin J Heslin, Tina E Wood, Rojymon Jacob

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Article in Journal of gastrointestinal cancer, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Is Neoadjuvant Therapy Sufficient in Resected Pancreatic Cancer Patients? A National Study.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2018
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  5. A Tale of Two Cities: Reconsidering Adjuvant Radiation in Pancreatic Cancer Care.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew M McDonaldHazelrig Salter Radiation Oncology Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1700 6th Ave S, Birmingham, AL, 35249, USA, ammcdonald@uabmc.edu.
Caleb R Dulaney
Javier López-Araujo
James A Posey
Kimberly S Keene
John D Christein
Martin J Heslin
Tina E Wood
Rojymon Jacob
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of radiotherapy on local control and mordibity for patients with resected lymph node-positive pancreatic cancer as compared to gemcitabine-based chemotherapy alone. MATERIALS AND

methodsSixty-nine patients received adjuvant therapy for pancreatic adenocarcinoma with lymph node involvement after surgical resection and met the inclusion criteria for this analysis. Forty (58 %) patients received postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) to a median dose of 50.4 Gy with capecitabine or 5-fluorouracil concurrently in all but one case; 15 patients also received gemcitabine prior to PORT. Twenty-nine (42 %) patients received gemcitabine-based chemotherapy without PORT for a median of 6 cycles.

resultsThe median overall survival for patients receiving PORT was 24.4 months compared to 25.6 months for patients not receiving PORT (p = 0.943). At 2 years, the rate of local control was 57 % for patients receiving PORT compared to 37 % for those who did not (p = 0.034). At 2 years, the rate of palliative local interventions was 16 % for patients receiving PORT compared to 18 % for patients who did not (p = 0.821).

conclusionThe use of PORT was associated with improved local control in the gemcitabine era for patients with resected, node-positive, pancreatic adenocarcinoma. The rates of overall survival and palliative interventions did not differ between the two groups.

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AdenocarcinomaAgedAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsChemotherapy, AdjuvantCombined Modality TherapyDeoxycytidineFemaleFluorouracilFollow-Up StudiesGemcitabineHumansLymph NodesMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasm GradingNeoplasm InvasivenessDeoxycytidineFluorouracilGemcitabine

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PMID25782589
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