Red Blood Cell Transfusion Thresholds for Improved Quality of Life for Patients Undergoing a Pancreatectomy for Pancreatic Cancer

Exclusion Criteria

• •Pregnant, breastfeeding, or unwilling to practice birth control during participation in the study
• •Presence of a condition or abnormality that in the opinion of the Investigator would compromise the safety of the patient or the quality of the data
• •Patients who are unable to receive or who refuse blood products
• •Patients involved in an autologous pre-donation program
• •Patients found to have metastatic disease upon entry into abdomen-having been randomized, these patients will be removed from the study and replaced with another patient
• •Patients found to not have cancer during the operation- If the resected lesion proves not to be cancer, the patient will remain as an enrolled patient but not evaluable and replaced by another patient
• •Established severe cardiovascular disease with estimated 5-year survival \<10% based on Framingham risk score
• •Unstable angina or recent myocardial infarction (MI)/stroke within 6 months