Intraoperative blood loss is not a predictor of prognosis for pancreatic cancer.

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Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, 1-1-1 Honjo, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto, 860-8556, Japan.

Published: July 2016

Purpose: The relationship between intraoperative blood loss (IBL) and prognosis has been reported for some types of cancer, but not for pancreatic cancer, which has one of the highest mortality rates of any cancer. We conducted this study to analyze the relationship between IBL and clinical outcome for patients undergoing radical surgery for pancreatic cancer.

Methods: The subjects of this study were 144 patients who underwent curative pancreatectomy for invasive pancreatic cancer between 2002 and 2014. Clinicopathological characteristics were recorded and prognostic factors were identified by univariate and multivariate analyses.

Results: Large IBL was significantly associated with advanced tumor stage, a long operation time, a large tumor, portal vein resection, and blood transfusion. According to univariate analysis, IBL was also significantly associated with overall survival (OS) and relapse-free survival (RFS); however, it was not an independent prognostic factor for OS and RFS in multivariate analysis. According to multivariate analysis, lymph node metastasis and R-status were independent prognostic factors for OS and RFS. A subgroup analysis of patients who received no blood transfusion showed similar results.

Conclusion: Minimizing IBL is very important; however, the present study found that positive lymph node metastasis and R-status were stronger independent prognostic factors for pancreatic cancer.

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