Abraxane and Gemcitabine Versus Gemcitabine Alone in Locally Advanced Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer.

Summary

Pancreatic cancer is the fourth cause of cancer mortality: there are different treatment approaches to locally advanced pancreatic cancer management. Generally, gemcitabine alone is considered a reasonable approach for advanced pancreatic cancer patients but we need a chemotherapeutic regimen able to prevent as much as possible a progression of the disease. Nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane) recently demonstrated an interesting activity profile in advanced pancreatic cancer. A combination of Nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine has been demonstrated superior to gemcitabine alone in metastatic patients.

Timeline

Start

2014-01

Primary completion

2016-03

Completion

2019-01-14

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

paper The study showed a reduction of a progressive disease from 45.6% with G to 25.4% with NAB-P/G (P = 0.01) at 3 months. PMID 33812334 ↗

Publications

• Cascinu S, Berardi R, Bianco R, Bilancia D, Zaniboni A, Ferrari D, Mosconi S, Spallanzani A, Cavanna L, Leo S, Negri F, Beretta GD, Sobrero A, Banzi M, Morabito A, Bittoni A, Marciano R, Ferrara D, Noventa S, Piccirillo MC, Labianca R, Mosconi C, Casadei Gardini A, Gallo C, Perrone F. Nab-paclitaxel/gemcitabine combination is more effective than gemcitabine alone in locally advanced, unresectable pancreatic cancer - A GISCAD phase II randomized trial. Eur J Cancer. 2021 May;148:422-429. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2021.02.023. Epub 2021 Mar 31.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.