Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Applied Biometry, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Ann Surg Oncol. 2021 Dec;28(13):9086-9095. doi: 10.1245/s10434-021-10187-8. Epub 2021 Jun 15.
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a common fatal disease with unfavorable prognosis, even after oncological resection. To improve survival, adding hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) has been suggested. Whether HIPEC entails disproportional short-term mortality is unknown and a prospectively determined adverse events profile is lacking. Since both pancreatic resection and HIPEC may relevantly influence morbidity and mortality, this uncontrolled single-arm, open-label, phase I/II pilot trial was designed to assess the 30-day mortality rate, treatment feasibility, and adverse events connected with HIPEC after oncological pancreatic surgery.
This trial recruited patients scheduled for PDAC resection. A sample size of 16 patients receiving study interventions was estimated to establish a predefined margin of treatment-associated short-term mortality with a power of > 80%. Patients achieving complete macroscopic resection received HIPEC with gemcitabine administered at 1000 mg/m body surface area heated to 42 °C for 1 hour.
Within 30 days after intervention, no patient died or experienced any adverse events higher than grade 3 that were related to HIPEC. Furthermore, treatment-related adverse events were prospectively documented and categorized as expected or unexpected. This trial supports that the actual mortality rate after PDAC resection and HIPEC is below 10%. HIPEC treatment proved feasible in 89% of patients allocated to intervention. Pancreatic fistulas, as key complications after pancreas surgery, occurred in 3/13 patients under risk.
Combined pancreas resection and gemcitabine HIPEC proved feasible and safe, with acceptable morbidity and mortality. Based on these results, further clinical evaluation can be justified.
NCT02863471 ( http://www.clinicaltrials.gov ).
胰腺导管腺癌(PDAC)是一种常见的致命疾病,预后不良,即使进行了肿瘤切除也是如此。为了提高生存率,已经提出了添加腹腔热灌注化疗(HIPEC)的建议。HIPEC 是否会导致不成比例的短期死亡率尚不清楚,也缺乏前瞻性确定的不良事件概况。由于胰腺切除术和 HIPEC 都可能对发病率和死亡率产生重大影响,因此设计了这项非对照的单臂、开放标签、I/II 期试验,以评估接受肿瘤胰腺手术后 30 天死亡率、治疗可行性以及与 HIPEC 相关的不良事件。
本试验招募了计划接受 PDAC 切除术的患者。估计需要 16 名接受研究干预的患者样本量,以建立与治疗相关的短期死亡率的预定界限,其置信度>80%。接受完全宏观切除的患者接受 HIPEC,吉西他滨以 1000mg/m 体表面积给药,加热至 42°C 持续 1 小时。
在干预后 30 天内,没有患者死亡或经历任何与 HIPEC 相关的高于 3 级的不良事件。此外,前瞻性地记录了与治疗相关的不良事件,并分为预期或意外。本试验支持 PDAC 切除和 HIPEC 后实际死亡率低于 10%。在分配给干预的 89%的患者中,HIPEC 治疗被证明是可行的。在 3/13 例存在风险的胰腺手术后,发生了关键并发症胰腺瘘。
联合胰腺切除术和吉西他滨 HIPEC 证明是可行且安全的,具有可接受的发病率和死亡率。基于这些结果,可以进行进一步的临床评估。
NCT02863471(http://www.clinicaltrials.gov)。