Simple prognostic markers for optimal treatment of patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer

Autor: Hideki Miyata, Yoichi Hiasa, Tomoyuki Yokota, Naozumi Shibata, Yoshiki Imamura, Teruki Miyake, Ichinosuke Hyodo, Taira Kuroda, Teru Kumagi, Mitsuhito Koizumi, Yoshinori Ohno, Kozue Kanemitsu, Nobuaki Azemoto, Takashi Terao, Yoshinori Tanaka
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Medicine
ISSN: 1536-5964
0025-7974
DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000027591
Popis: Most patients with pancreatic cancer are ineligible for curative resection at diagnosis, resulting in poor prognosis. This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic factors in patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer. We retrospectively collected clinical data from 196 patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer who received palliative chemotherapy (N = 153) or palliative care alone (N = 43) from January 2011 to December 2013. Patients’ background data and overall survival were analyzed using the Cox proportional hazard regression model. In patients receiving palliative chemotherapy (gemcitabine-based regimen, 88.2%) and palliative care alone, the median (range) ages were 68 (43–91) and 78 (53–90) years, and metastatic diseases were present in 80% (N = 123) and 86% (N = 37), respectively. Multivariate analysis in the palliative chemotherapy patients showed that liver metastasis (hazard ratio [HR] 2.25, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.58–3.20, P 4.5 vs ≤4.5; HR 3.45, 95% CI 2.22–5.36, P
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