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ABSTRACT: Aim
This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of radical resection and postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy on the survival benefit in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), stratified by age, frailty, and other factors in actual clinical practice.Methods
We retrospectively analyzed the clinicopathological and follow-up data of 414 patients with PDAC who underwent surgical resection at nine institutions under the Yamaguchi Pancreat/Biliary Disease Study Group, between January 1997 and December 2016. Recurrence-free survival (RFS) and overall survival (OS) were calculated using the Kaplan-Meier method. Associations between survival and prognostic factors were evaluated by univariate and multivariate analyses.Results
There were 30.5% of patients with
SUBMITTER: Matsui H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC11826832 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature