Resection/Synchronous Pulmonary or Hepatic Oligometastatic Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
Surgical Resection of Synchronous Pulmonary or Hepatic Oligometastatic Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PHOLIPANC) Following Pre-operative Liposomal Irinotecan Combined With Oxaliplatin and 5-Fluoracil/Folinic Acid (NALIRIFOX): A Phase II Open-Label Single Arm Trial
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
40 participants
Mar 2, 2026
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
This is a clinical trial that tests a surgical treatment. Everyone in the study will get the same treatment, and there is no comparison or placebo group. Patients can join the study if they have pancreatic cancer that has spread to only a few spots in the liver or lungs. They must be receiving a type of chemotherapy called NALIRIFOX before surgery (this is called neoadjuvant chemotherapy). If the cancer gets worse during or after the first 4 cycles of chemotherapy, the patient will be removed from the study. If the cancer stays the same or gets smaller after the first 4 cycles, doctors will check if the main tumor can be removed with surgery. If the tumor cannot be removed, the patient will get 4 more cycles of chemotherapy as standard of care. If the main tumor can be removed, the patient will have surgery 2-6 weeks after finishing chemotherapy. During surgery, doctors will try to remove both the main tumor and the small tumors in the liver or lungs. If, during surgery, the doctor finds that the main tumor actually cannot be removed, the patient may receive 4 more cycles of chemotherapy starting 2-4 weeks after surgery.
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Interventions
Patients with a technically resectable primary tumor and tumor response or stable disease of their metastatic disease according to the evaluation of an interdisciplinary tumor board after the first 4 cycles will undergo exploratory laparotomy and synchronous or staged resection of the primary tumor and the hepatic or pulmonary metastases by using the standard of care surgical techniques 2-6 weeks after the last neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Residual tumor classification, also known as R Classification defines how complete the resection of the malignancy has been at surgery: R0: no residual tumor/R1: microscopic residual tumor
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NCT07340151