Pancreatic Cancer Patient Outcomes with Biliary Fungal Culture Data, 2015-2022

A retrospective study of 82 patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who underwent curative-intent pancreaticoduodenectomy between 2015 and 2022. The dataset includes intraoperative biliary fungal culture results, preoperative stenting status, and associations with overall survival, recurrence-free survival, and postoperative complications. The data was published by Jeremy Chang on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling overall survival risk based on biliary fungal contamination status mentioned in the description
• Analyzing the association between neoadjuvant chemotherapy and fungal contamination rates described in the results
• Investigating the relationship between preoperative biliary stenting and postoperative complication rates as a secondary outcome measure

Strengths

• Includes data from 82 patients with a specific diagnosis and treatment pathway
• Reports specific statistical findings, such as a hazard ratio of 2.11 for overall survival associated with fungal contamination
• Data covers a defined 7-year period from 2015 to 2022

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data is from a single institutional database, which may limit generalizability

Provenance

Source

A prospectively maintained single tertiary institutional database, as described.

Collection Method

Retrospective study of patient records, with intraoperative biliary fungal cultures.

Time Range

2015 to 2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 07:38:17; freshness should be verified