Evidence Level:Sensitive: B - Late Trials
Title:
ESPAC-4: A multicenter, international, open-label randomized controlled phase III trial of adjuvant combination chemotherapy of gemcitabine (GEM) and capecitabine (CAP) versus monotherapy gemcitabine in patients with resected pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: Five year follow-up.
Excerpt:Patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma were randomized within 12 weeks of surgery (stratified for R0/R1 resection margin status and country) to have either six 4-week cycles of IV GEM alone or GEM with oral CAP....Median (95% CI) survival (months) for patients treated with GEM/CAP was 27.7 23.3 – 31.2) and 26.0 (22.7 – 28.4) for GEM. Five-year (95% CI) survival rates were 20 (16 – 25) % for GEM and 28 (23 – 33) % for GEM/CAP.
DOI:10.1200/JCO.2020.38.15_suppl.4516