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Do you consider adjuvant chemoradiation for resected pancreatic cancer with anterior surface “margin” positivity?

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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Whipple specimens are very difficult to process and evaluate. It requires collaboration between the surgeon and the pathologist to identify the relevant margins. I can't recall ever seeing this situation but it does not seem to me that the anterior peritoneal surface of the pancreas is a "true" marg...

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