FOLFIRINOX: The Best Adjuvant Treatment for Ampullary Adenocarcinoma? A Multicenter Study by the Turkish Oncology...

Ampullary adenocarcinoma is a rare cancer for which there are no standard adjuvant treatment recommendations due to the lack of randomized clinical trials. The primary aim of this analysis is to investigate the efficacy of adjuvant FOLFIRINOX treatment in patients with resected ampullary adenocarcinoma.

This multicenter retrospective cohort study was conducted at 15 institutions in Turkey between August 2007 and January 2024, involving 211 patients with resected, non-metastatic ampullary adenocarcinoma receiving adjuvant chemotherapy with various chemotherapy regimens with or without chemoradiation. Clinicopathological and treatment-related parameters were recorded. Disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) were analyzed by using Kaplan-Meier estimates. Cox proportional hazards regression was used to identify covariates associated with OS.

The median follow-up time was 52 months, and 116 patients (55.2%) were alive at the time of the analysis. The median age was 61 years (32-82). mFOLFIRINOX was administered to 16.6% of the patients (n = 35). The 3-year DFS rate was 79.41% in the FOLFIRINOX-treated arm and 53.9% in the other treatment arm (p = 0.034 for mDFS). The median OS was non-reached in patients receiving mFOLFIRINOX treatment, while it was 51 months in patients receiving other treatments (p = 0.071). While no statistically significant results were reached, a trend toward statistically significant survival times was observed in the FOLFIRINOX arm. After adjustment for other prognostic parameters, mFOLFIRINOX remained an independent statistically significant parameter for better OS (HR; 95% CI: 3.24; 1.02-10.9; p = 0.046).

FOLFIRINOX treatment has shown efficacy in the adjuvant treatment of ampullary cancer, independent of histological subtype. The findings should be validated in large prospective trials.