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Neoadjuvant Treatment in Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer (LAPC) Patients with FOLFIRINOX or Gemcitabine NabPaclitaxel: A Single-Center Experience and a Literature Review.

ABSTRACT: The optimal therapeutic strategy for locally advanced pancreatic cancer patients (LAPC) has not yet been established. Our aim is to evaluate how surgery after neoadjuvant treatment with either FOLFIRINOX (FFN) or Gemcitabine-NabPaclitaxel (GemNab) affects the clinical outcome in these patients. LAPC patients treated at our institution were retrospectively analysed to reach this goal. The group characteristics were similar: 35 patients were treated with the FOLFIRINOX regimen and 21 patients with Gemcitabine Nab-Paclitaxel. The number of patients undergoing surgery was 14 in the FFN group (40%) and six in the GemNab group (28.6%). The median Disease-Free Survival (DFS) was 77.10 weeks in the FFN group and 58.65 weeks in the Gem Nab group (p = 0.625), while the median PFS in the unresected group was 49.4 weeks in the FFN group and 30.9 in the GemNab group (p = 0.0029, 95% CI 0.138-0.862, HR 0.345). The overall survival (OS) in the resected population needs a longer follow up to be completely assessed, while the median overall survival (mOS) in the FFN group was 72.10 weeks and 53.30 weeks for the GemNab group (p = 0.06) in the unresected population. Surgery is a valuable option for LAPC patients and it is able to induce a relevant survival advantage. FOLFIRINOX and Gem-NabPaclitaxel should be offered as first options to pancreatic cancer patients in the locally advanced setting.

SUBMITTER: Napolitano F

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6678351 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

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Neoadjuvant Treatment in Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer (LAPC) Patients with FOLFIRINOX or Gemcitabine NabPaclitaxel: A Single-Center Experience and a Literature Review.

Napolitano Fabiana F Formisano Luigi L Giardino Alessandro A Girelli Roberto R Servetto Alberto A Santaniello Antonio A Foschini Francesca F Marciano Roberta R Mozzillo Eleonora E Carratù Anna Chiara AC Cascetta Priscilla P De Placido Pietro P De Placido Sabino S Bianco Roberto R

Cancers 20190713 7

The optimal therapeutic strategy for locally advanced pancreatic cancer patients (LAPC) has not yet been established. Our aim is to evaluate how surgery after neoadjuvant treatment with either FOLFIRINOX (FFN) or Gemcitabine-NabPaclitaxel (GemNab) affects the clinical outcome in these patients. LAPC patients treated at our institution were retrospectively analysed to reach this goal. The group characteristics were similar: 35 patients were treated with the FOLFIRINOX regimen and 21 patients with ...[more]

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Project description:AbstractCurrently, the combination of 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, irinotecan, and oxaliplatin (FOLFIRINOX) is the standard therapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer. In recent years, FOLFIRINOX-based neoadjuvant therapy for locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC) has been gaining an increasing amount of attention, owing to its ability to reduce disease stage and transform LAPC to borderline resectable or even resectable pancreatic cancer. Accordingly, we aimed to evaluate the efficacy of first-line FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy in patients with LAPC.We searched PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library from the time of establishment till January 1, 2020 and included studies focusing on LAPC patients who received FOLFIRINOX as first-line neoadjuvant treatment. The primary outcomes were: resection rate and radical (R0) resection rate while the secondary outcomes were: objective response rate, overall survival, progression-free survival, and rate of grade 3 to 4 adverse events. The meta package for R 3.6.2 was used for heterogeneity and publication bias testing.Twenty-one studies, including 653 patients with LAPC, were selected. After treatment with FOLFIRINOX, the resection rate was 26% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 20%-32%, I2 = 61%) and R0 resection rate was 88% (95% CI = 78%-95%, I2 = 62%). The response rate was 34% (95% CI = 25%-43%, I2 = 56%). The median overall survival and progression-free survival durations ranged from 10.0 to 32.7 months and 3.0 to 25.3 months, respectively. The observed grade 3 to 4 adverse events were neutropenia (20.0 per 100 patients, 95% CI = 14%-27%, I2 = 75%), febrile neutropenia (7.0 per 100 patients, 95% CI = 5%-9%, I2 = 42%), thrombocytopenia (6.0 per 100 patients, 95% CI = 5%-8%, I2 = 27%), nausea/vomiting (7.0 per 100 patients, 95% CI = 7%-12%, I2 = 76%), diarrhea (10.0 per 100 patients, 95% CI = 8%-12%, I2 = 38%), and fatigue (9.0 per 100 patients, 95% CI = 7%-11%, I2 = 43%).FOLFIRINOX-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy has the potential to improve the rates of resection, R0 resection, and median OS in LAPC. Our results require further validation in large, high-quality randomized controlled trials.

Project description:Lessons learnedModification of FOLFIRINOX significantly improves safety and tolerability in Chinese patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer.Patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer benefit from neoadjuvant therapy and experience a much better survival than patients with upfront surgery.BackgroundThe objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of modified-FOLFIRINOX (mFOLFIRINOX) regimens in Chinese patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC) and to compare outcomes between patients with LAPC treated with mFOLFIRINOX-based neoadjuvant therapy (LAPC-N) and patients with LAPC who underwent upfront surgery (LAPC-S).MethodsForty-one patients with LAPC-N were enrolled prospectively. Imaging features, chemotherapy response, adverse events, perioperative complications, histology, and survival were analyzed. Seventy-four patients with resectable pancreatic cancer (RPC) (from April 2012 to November 2017) and 19 patients with LAPC-S (from April 2012 to March 2014) were set as observational cohorts, and data were collected retrospectively. LAPC-N patients with adequate response underwent surgical treatment, whereas continuous chemotherapy was given to LAPC-N patients who were not deemed resectable after treatment, and the response was re-evaluated every 2 months.ResultsForty-one patients with LAPC received mFOLFIRINOX with a response rate of 37.1%. The most common severe adverse events were neutropenia and anemia. mFOLFIRINOX-based neoadjuvant therapy contributed to a remarkable decrease in CA19-9 level and tumor diameter. Fourteen LAPC-N patients underwent surgery (LAPC-N-S) after downstaging. Compared with LAPC-N-S cases, LAPC-S patients had longer operative time, more blood loss, and a higher risk of grade 5 complications. The median overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) of LAPC-N-S patients were 27.7 months and 19.3 months, respectively, which were similar to those of patients with RPC (30.0 months and 23.0 months) and much longer than those of patients with LAPC-S (8.9 months and 7.6 months), respectively.ConclusionNeoadjuvant chemotherapy such as the mFOLFIRINOX regimen can be recommended for Chinese patients with LAPC after dose modification. Patients with LAPC-N who underwent surgery obtained significantly improved survival compared with patients in the observational LAPC-S cohort, who did not undergo neoadjuvant therapy.

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Neoadjuvant Treatment in Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer (LAPC) Patients with FOLFIRINOX or Gemcitabine NabPaclitaxel: A Single-Center Experience and a Literature Review.

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Neoadjuvant Treatment in Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer (LAPC) Patients with FOLFIRINOX or Gemcitabine NabPaclitaxel: A Single-Center Experience and a Literature Review.

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