ArticleCancers2023
Patients with Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Treated with Mistletoe and Hyperthermia in Addition to Palliative Chemotherapy: A Retrospective Single-Center Analysis.
Article in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07564440 (Clinical and Biological Safety Study of the BTT Hyperthermia in Adult Subjects), which is not on this map. Cited by 5 papers.
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Clinical and Biological Safety Study of the BTT Hyperthermia in Adult Subjects
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mistletoe Extract in Patients With Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: a Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Tial (MISTRAL)Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2024Trial
- Efficacy and safety of radiofrequency hyperthermia combined with immune checkpoint inhibitors and chemotherapy as first-line treatment for HER2-negative advanced gastric/gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma: A propensity score-matched study.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2026Observational
- Predictors of Successful Whole-Body Hyperthermia in Cancer Patients: Target Temperature Achievement and Safety Analysis.Cancers · 2025Article
- Mistletoe in Cancer Cell Biology: Recent Advances.Current issues in molecular biology · 2025Review
- Pediatric pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma with a non-canonical BRAF-KMT2C fusion and a classic SND1-BRAF fusion: a case report and literature review.BMC pediatrics · 2025Review
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Abstract
This retrospective analysis investigated the influence of integrative therapies in addition to palliative chemotherapy in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, treated at a single institution specialized in integrative oncology between January 2015 and December 2019. In total, 206 consecutive patients were included in the study, whereof 142 patients (68.9%) received palliative chemotherapy (gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel 33.8%; FOLFIRINOX 35.9%; gemcitabine 30.3%) while the remainder were treated with best supportive and integrative care. Integrative therapies were used in 117 of 142 patients (82.4%) in addition to conventional chemotherapy, whereby mistletoe was used in 117 patients (82.4%) and hyperthermia in 74 patients (52.1%). A total of 107/142 patients (86.3%) died during the observation period, whereby survival times differed significantly depending on the additional use of integrative mistletoe or hyperthermia: chemotherapy alone 8.6 months (95% CI 4.7-15.4), chemotherapy and only mistletoe therapy 11.2 months (95% CI 7.1-14.2), or a combination of chemotherapy with mistletoe and hyperthermia 18.9 months (95% CI 15.2-24.5). While the survival times observed for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer receiving chemotherapy alone are consistent with pivotal phase-III studies and German registry data, we found significantly improved survival using additional mistletoe and/or hyperthermia.
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