Impact of a non-therapeutic laparotomy in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer treated with induction (m)FOLFIRINOX: Trans-Atlantic Pancreatic Surgery (TAPS) Consortium study.
Rutger T TheijseThomas F StoopQuisette P JanssenLaura R PrakashMatthew H G KatzDeesje DoppenbergChing-Wei D TzengAlice C WeiAmer H ZureikatBas Groot KoerkampMarc G H BesselinkPublished in: The British journal of surgery (2024)
More than a quarter of surgically explored patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer after induction (m)FOLFIRINOX did not undergo a resection. Such non-therapeutic laparotomy does not appear to substantially impact oncological outcomes.