Vapreotide in Treating Patients Undergoing Elective Pancreatic Resection
Pancreatic Cancer, Perioperative/Postoperative Complications
About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for Pancreatic Cancer focused on measuring perioperative/postoperative complications, stage I pancreatic cancer
Eligibility Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Planned elective pancreatic resection due to presumed pancreatic tumor (either proximal or distal pancreatic lesion) or presumed neoplasm of the ampullary or periampullary region Require peri-anastomotic drain(s) near the pancreaticoenterostomy or near the pancreatic stump closure The following are excluded: Emergency surgery of the pancreas (acute pancreatitis, pancreatic trauma) Known chronic pancreatitis (pancreatic cancer with duct obstructive chronic pancreatitis allowed) Need for total pancreatectomy Need for pancreatic transplantation Need for elective pancreatic-cyst anastomosis Need for pancreatic duct drainage operation without resection (pancreatic stents allowed if performed with partial pancreatic resection) Enucleation of a pancreatic neoplasm PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 18 to 90 Performance status: Not specified Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: Not specified Hepatic: Bilirubin no greater than 2.0 mg/dL Renal: Creatinine no greater than 2 times upper limit of normal Other: Not pregnant or nursing Negative pregnancy test Fertile patients must use effective contraception PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: Not specified Chemotherapy: No neoadjuvant or postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy from 2 weeks before to 2 weeks after surgery Endocrine therapy: At least 4 weeks since prior somatostatin or somatostatin analogue No other concurrent somatostatin or somatostatin analogues Radiotherapy: No neoadjuvant or postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy from 2 weeks before to 2 weeks after surgery Surgery: See Disease Characteristics Other: No concurrent pancreatic enzyme inhibitors (e.g., antiproteases) No concurrent immunosuppressive agents
Sites / Locations
- University of Alabama Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Moffett Cancer Center (South)
- Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center
- University of Chicago Cancer Research Center
- Loyola University Medical Center
- Johns Hopkins Oncology Center
- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Taubman Health Care Center
- Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
- Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
- NYU School of Medicine's Kaplan Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
- University of Texas Medical Branch
- University of Texas - MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Virginia Mason Medical Center
- Medical College of Wisconsin