Can chemo before surgery make pancreatic cancer removable?

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Histologic or cytologic proof of pancreatic adenocarcinoma * Locally advanced, stage III (T4NxM0) and unresectable by National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Guidelines prior to perioperative chemotherapy * Patients must have measurable disease at diagnosis per Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 * At least 4 cycles of perioperative chemotherapy (gemcitabine \[Gem\]/nab-paclitaxel or fluorouracil, irinotecan, leucovorin and oxaliplatin \[FOLFIRINOX\]) received with no evidence of progression on restaging scans per RECIST 1.1 * Age ≥ 18 years * Performance status Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) 0-1 * Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/mcL * Platelets ≥ 100,000/mcl * Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x institutional upper limit of normal (ULN) if no biliary stenting has been done or 2.0 x ULN if patient is status post (s/p) biliary stenting or two down trending values * Aspartate aminotransferase (AST)(serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase \[SGOT\])/alanine aminotransferase (ALT)(serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase \[SPGT\]) ≤ 2.5 X ULN * Creatinine (Cr) ≤ 1.5 mg/dL or Cr clearance ≥ 30 mL/min (as estimated by Cockcroft Gault) * Women of child-bearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry, for the duration of study participation, and for 90 days following completion of therapy. Should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately * A female of child-bearing potential is any woman (regardless of sexual orientation, having undergone a tubal ligation, or remaining celibate by choice) who meets the following criteria: Has not undergone a hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy; or has not been naturally postmenopausal for at least 12 consecutive months (i.e., has had menses at any time in the preceding 12 consecutive months) * Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Patient with known distant metastases * Patients who have not recovered from adverse events of chemotherapy due to agents administered more than 4 weeks earlier * Patients who have progressed on 2 prior systemic chemotherapy lines or received prior radiotherapy for pancreatic cancer * Patients may not be receiving any other investigational agents * Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements * Patients must not be pregnant or nursing due to the potential for congenital abnormalities and the potential of this regimen to harm nursing infants