| Literature DB >> 26261729 |
Tolutope Oyasiji1, Wen Wee Ma1.
Abstract
Contemporary adjuvant therapy for pancreatic cancer patients following surgical resection includes chemotherapy and chemoradiotherapy. However, the median survival remains approximately 20 months despite multi-modality treatment using gemcitabine or fluoropyrimidine systemic chemotherapy. Adjuvant randomized trials are currently underway to evaluate cytotoxic combinations found to be active in advanced disease including FOLFIRINOX, gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine/capecitabine. Immunotherapy using genetically engineered cell-based vaccines had shown promise in resected pancreatic cancer patients during early phase trials, and algenpantucel-L vaccine is currently being evaluated in adjuvant setting in a randomized trial. This review focuses on novel adjuvant therapies currently in clinical evaluation.Entities:
Keywords: Pancreatic cancer; adjuvant therapy; immunotherapy; vaccines
Year: 2015 PMID: 26261729 PMCID: PMC4502164 DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2078-6891.2015.031
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Gastrointest Oncol ISSN: 2078-6891