Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an extremely aggressive disease, with a median survival time of less than 9 months and a 5-year survival rate of Ͻ1%. Current advances in surgical, (neo)adjuvant, and palliative treatments have failed to prevent recurrence and ultimate metastasis (1-3).In order to be effective, chemotherapy must reduce the tumor burden, promote anticancer immunity, and alleviate intratumoral immunosuppression (4-6). Forced tumor cell death in an immunogenic manner (i.e., immunogenic cell death [ICD]) has been proposed as the best way to trigger an adaptive immune response, boosting the therapeutic efficacy of a cytoreductive treatment (7,8). Preapoptotic surface exposure of calreticulin (CRT) (as a result of the endoplasmic reticulum stress response), as well as release of ATP (autophagy) and high-mobility group box B1 protein (HMGB1) (late apoptosis/necrosis), is considered the optimal ICD combination for dying tumor cells to enable paracrine activation of dendritic cells and the consequent priming of cytotoxic effectors. The surface exposure of CRT promotes uptake of dying tumor cells by dendritic cells, and the release of HMGB1 engages