Is chemotherapy beneficial? A retrospective study of chemotherapy in patients with invasive intraductal papillary-mucinous carcinoma

• Published in: Heliyon 2024-10, Vol.10 (19), p.e38430, Article e38430
• Main Authors: Ouyang, Yonghao, Liu, Pengpeng, Chu, Lihua, Xiao, Yi, Zhu, Hong, Qiang hao, Zhang, Caihua
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Chemotherapy; Invasive intraductal papillary-mucinous carcinoma (IPMC); Prognostic
• ISSN: 2405-8440; 2405-8440
• DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e38430

Whether chemotherapy can improve the prognosis of invasive intraductal papillary-mucinous carcinoma (IPMC) still remains unclear. The aim of this study is to observe the difference in survival time of patients with invasive IPMC receiving or not receiving chemotherapy. 117 patients with invasive IPMC were included in The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. These patients were subsequently divided into two subgroups according to whether they received chemotherapy or not: the non-chemotherapy group (patients who did not receivechemotherapy, N = 58), the chemotherapy group (patients who received chemotherapy, N = 59). The overall survival (OS) and cancer specific survival (CSS) of two treatment groups were evaluated. Before adjusting for pathology grade, the Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that the difference of survival time is not significant between non-chemotherapy group and chemotherapy group (P > 0.05), but the land-mark analysis showed that short-term death risk of the chemotherapy group is significantly lower than non-chemotherapy group (P