Treatment of Pancreatic and Periampullary Cancers at a Community Hospital: Successful Application of Tertiary Care Treatment Standards

Table 1

Survival in resected pancreatic cancer patients. A “potential” survivor is one whose surgery was done long enough ago to be a possible survivor for the indicated number of years.

	Total Patients	Potential 1-year survivors	Actual 1-year survivors	Potential 2-year survivors	Actual 2-year survivors	Potential 3-year survivors	Actual 3-year survivors
All resected patients*	28	21	18 (86%)	13	8 (62%)	8	2 (25%)
Stage I patients	8	7	7 (100%)	2	2 (100%)	1	1 (100%)
Stage II patients	19	13	10 (77%)	10	5 (50%)	7	1 (14%)

*Included in this group is the patient who presented with Stage III disease but was downstaged with neoadjuvant therapy and resected.