Feasibility of pancreatectomy following high-dose proton therapy for unresectable pancreatic cancer

Table 1 Patient details

Patient	1	2	3	4	5
Age	55	60	51	68	67
Stage	T3 N1	T4 N0	T4 N0	T4 N0	T4 N0
Comorbidities	None	Colon cancer	Unintentional weight loss	None	Unintentional weight loss
Resection type	Laparoscopic	Laparoscopic	Laparoscopic	Open	Open
Surgery duration (min)	339	465	419	290	484
Estimated blood loss (mL)	300	800	850	2000	1000
Intensive care stay (d)	1	1	0	2	0
Total hospital stay (d)	5	11	6	10	14
Complications	Wound infection	Delayed gastric emptying	None	None	Delayed gastric emptying and gastritis
Readmission within 30 d	4 d for wound infection	2 d for nausea and vomiting	None	None	2 d for gastritis

Table 2 Surgical metrics for pancreatectomy - A comparison of the published studies

Published study	Operating room time (min)	Estimated blood loss (cc)	Length of hospital stay (d)
Tseng[9]	513	725	13
Speicher[10] open	NA	500	NA
Speicher[10] laparoscopic	NA	200	NA
Speicher[10] total	431	NA	10
Asbun[11] open	401	1032	12.4
Asbun[11] laparoscopic	541	195	8
Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration	NA	NA	11
Current series	419	850	10

NA: Not applicable.