title: Clinical results on intra-arterial adjuvant chemotherapy for prevention of liver metastasis following curative resection of pancreatic cancer.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  We report here the clinical results of intra-arterial adjuvant chemotherapy for the prevention of liver metastasis following curative resection of pancreatic carcinoma.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-two patients with pancreatic cancer underwent the radical operation between January 1999 and April 2005. Intra-arterial adjuvant chemotherapy with cisplatin (CDDP) and 5-fluorouracil (5FU) was selectively performed on nine patients; the remaining 13 patients did not receive chemotherapy and comprised the control group.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Demographics and clinical characteristics were almost identical in the two groups. Liver metastasis occurred in three of nine patients (33%) in the chemotherapy group and in seven of 13 patients (54%) in the control group. The intra-arterial adjuvant chemotherapy had the tendency to suppress the rate of liver metastasis. The median survival period was 15.8 months for the nine patients who underwent the intra-arterial adjuvant chemotherapy following surgery and 13.4 months for the 13 patients of the control group who were curatively resected without the intra-arterial adjuvant chemotherapy. Cumulative survival rate was improved by the intra-arterial adjuvant chemotherapy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In patients with pancreatic cancer who underwent the curative operation, the intra-arterial adjuvant chemotherapy had the tendency to suppress the rate of liver metastasis and improve cumulative survival.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Bell Land General Hospital, 500-3, Higashiyama, Sakai City, Osaka, 5998247, Japan. akirah1@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hayashibe
authors.forename: Masao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kameyama
authors.forename: Masaya
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shinbo
authors.forename: Shinichiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Makimoto
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007261:Infusions, Intra-Arterial; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000556:secondary*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010180:Pancreatectomy; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D015996:Survival Rate