Nobumasa Mizuno, Tatsuya Ioka, Gakuto Ogawa, Satoaki Nakamura, Nobuyoshi Hiraoka, Yoshinori Ito, Hiroshi Katayama, Ryoji Takada, Satoshi Kobayashi, Masafumi Ikeda, Haruo Miwa, Naohiro Okano, Hidekazu Kuramochi, Mitsugu Sekimoto, Takuji Okusaka, Masato Ozaka, Akiko Todaka, Kunihito Gotoh, Kazutoshi Tobimatsu, Hironori Yamaguchi, Toshio Nakagohri, Shinya Kajiura, Kentaro Sudo, Keiya Okamura, Satoshi Shimizu, Hirofumi Shirakawa, Naoya Kato, Keiji Sano, Tomohisa Iwai, Nao Fujimori, Makoto Ueno, Hiroshi Ishii, Junji Furuse
OBJECTIVE: JCOG1106, a randomized phase II trial conducted to compare chemoradiotherapy (S-1 concurrent radiotherapy) with (Arm B) or without (Arm A) induction chemotherapy using gemcitabine in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer, showed a more favorable long-term survival in Arm A. This study was aimed at exploring whether some subgroups classified by the systemic inflammatory response might derive greater benefit from either treatment. METHODS: All subjects eligible for JCOG1106 were included in this analysis (n = 51/49 in Arm A/B)...
May 29, 2023: Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology