Is Complete Pathologic Response in Pancreatic Cancer Overestimated? A Systematic Review of Prospective Studies.

Antolino LauraCrovetto AnnaM Giulii CapponiMoschetta GiovanniMattei Maria SoleAndrea Kazemi NavaPetrucciani NiccolòNigri GiuseppeValabrega StefanoAurello PaoloD'Angelo FrancescoRamacciato Giovanni

Published in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2020)

Pathologic complete response in pancreatic cancer is actually infrequent: high-quality studies provide a more reliable picture of neoadjuvant effects, high rates of pCR are reported in selected retrospective studies but it is overestimated.

Keyphrases

case control
locally advanced
neoadjuvant chemotherapy
rectal cancer
lymph node
cross sectional
radiation therapy