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Banri Ogino1, Shinya Kajiura1,2, Nobuhiko Hayashi1
1Third Department of Internal Medicine, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan.
Background:
Monitoring data for anamorelin in pancreatic cancer are limited.
Objective:
To descriptively examine week-three documentation-derived dietary intake category, observed body weight, laboratory-derived prognostic nutritional index (PNI), and treatment continuation after anamorelin initiation.
Methods:
We retrospectively included week-three-evaluable patients with unresectable or recurrent pancreatic cancer who initiated anamorelin at a Japanese hospital (July 2021-October 2024). Dietary intake category was derived from routine documentation. Paired changes used the Wilcoxon signed-rank test.
Results:
Among patients (N = 40; PNI, n = 39), dietary intake was classified as increased in 17, stable in 21, and decreased in 2. Median observed body weight was higher at week three than baseline (51.1 vs. 50.2 kg; p = 0.026), whereas median PNI was lower (38.5 vs. 39.8; p = 0.006). The median time-to-discontinuation was 60 days; 16 patients (40.0%) continued ≥84 days.
Conclusion:
These descriptive findings require cautious multidimensional interpretation; causal treatment effects cannot be inferred.
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