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Do you offer adjuvant treatment for resected colloid pancreatic carcinoma?
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Radiation Oncology · University of Utah School of Medicine
I rarely offer adjuvant radiation for typical pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma except in cases of positive margins, and then only after an adequate duration of chemotherapy has been given. Therefore, I do not think adjuvant radiation therapy should be routine in colloid pancreatic carcinoma, which i...
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Radiation Oncology · Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
Agree with @Dr. First Last in that I would not recommend post-operative RT particularly if resected with negative margins. Our group does typically recommend adjuvant systemic therapy for colloid carcinoma acknowledging that the strength of recommendations are lower, the disease is more indolent wit...