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Background: The benefit of preoperative treatment followed by pancreatic resection in older patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains unclear. In this retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data, we evaluated the significance and safety of preoperative treatment followed by curative resection for older PDAC patients.
Methods: We evaluated 122 patients with resectable and borderline resectable PDAC who received neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NACRT) followed by curative resection between 2009 and 2019. Changes in the prognostic nutritional indices during NACRT, surgical outcomes, and prognosis were compared between older (≥75 years, n = 44) and younger patients (<75 years, n = 78).
Results: The completion rate, adverse event rate, changes in prognostic nutritional indices during NACRT, and prognosis were similar between the groups. In multivariate analysis, an elevated C-reactive protein/albumin ratio (CRP/Alb) ≥ 33.1% during NACRT (p = 0.035) and no postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy (p = 0.041) were identified as significant predictors of overall survival.
Conclusions: NACRT followed by pancreatic resection could be safely performed in older patients, with a similar prognosis as that of younger patients, despite an increased frequency of postoperative complications. Elevated CRP/Alb during NACRT and no postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy were poor prognostic factors for older patients.
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