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NCT03813368

Whipples Resection in Octogenarians

Completed Last updated 13 June 2024
What this trial tests

trial testing Whipples pancreatico-duodenectomy in Pancreatic Cancer in 500 participants. Completed in 1 July 2019.

Timeline
20 February 2019
Primary endpoint
1 May 2019
1 July 2019

Quick facts

Lead sponsorUniversity of Edinburgh
StatusCompleted
Study typeOBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment500
Start date20 February 2019
Primary completion1 May 2019
Estimated completion1 July 2019
Sites1 location across United Kingdom

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

University of Edinburgh

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Pancreatic Cancer. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Whipples resection is an operation that has a burden of high morbidity and mortality. It is performed for a variety of disorders of the pancreas, duodenum and ampulla. The most common indication is pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma which has a poor long term outcome even when curative surgery has been performed. Short and long term outcomes however, have improved recently and the indications for curative resection have been increasingly extended, including operating on those that previously may have been considered too old to benefit from curative resection. Little is known about the benefit of performing this procedure in the oldest patients. Performing Whipples resection in patients over the age of 70 has been reported and has been shown to result in satisfactory perioperative results with comparable long term outcomes to those under 70. However the benefit of performing the same procedure in the over 80 age group is less well reported and consistently presents a challenging decision for the clinician.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

  1. Meta-Research in Geriatric Surgery: Improving the Quality of Surgical Evidence for Older Persons in a Multidimensional-Scale Research Field.
    Lozada-Martinez ID, Hernandez-Paez DA, Palacios Velasco I, Martinez Guevara D, et al · · 2024 · cited 3× · PMID 39336933 · DOI 10.3390/jcm13185441

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