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The purpose of this study is to evaluate a new treatment routine for patients with borderline resectable and unresectable pancreas cancers.


Clinical Trial Description

We want to find out what effects, good and bad, using chemotherapy combinations modified FOLFIRINOX (Oxaliplatin, Irinotecan, and fluorouracil) OR gemcitabine plus nab-paclitaxel (Gem-ABRAXANE) and radiation using Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) have on the cancer and to increase the percentage of patients who can have surgery to remove their disease. SBRT is a short course of high dose precisely delivered radiation. The two combination chemotherapy routines (mFOLFIRINOX or GEM-ABRAXANE) have been shown in previous clinical trials to be the most effective FDA approved chemotherapy in wide spread pancreatic cancers. These chemotherapy drugs will be given before the surgery. Radiation Therapy, using the 5 ½ week method as well as SBRT has been used as standard of care and found to be effective to reduce the size of pancreatic cancer, so patients can have surgery.

SBRT uses advance techniques to deliver radiation therapy which minimizes the volume of normal tissue receiving high dose radiation while maximizing the dose to the tumor. The use of SBRT spares normal tissue and reduces the side effects of radiation. By being more precise, and using a higher dose of radiation per treatment, the radiation delivery time can be decreased to about one week. When this chemotherapy followed by SBRT is combined in this order, this routine has the potential to treat both the primary disease, as well as to prevent the early spread of disease. It is hoped that the treatment routines in this study will increase the percentage of patients who can proceed to have surgery to remove their tumor.

This combination of chemotherapy drugs, mFOLFIRINOX or GEM-ABRAXANE and the sequence of chemotherapy followed by SBRT- the shorter course of radiation has not been studied previously and is considered investigational. ;


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NCT number NCT03641183
Study type Interventional
Source University of Alabama at Birmingham
Contact Ravikumar Paluri, MD
Phone 205-934-2992
Email drravi@uab.edu
Status Recruiting
Phase Phase 1/Phase 2
Start date February 1, 2017
Completion date March 31, 2020

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