Do you treat elective nodes in unresectable pancreas when treating with 15fx?
Do you use concurrent Xeloda?
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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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No, the standard has been to include only grossly enlarged node, so for now we do not include elective nodal irradiation. We will re-evaluate this practice when we have more data and are better able to assess the pattern of disease progression. We are treating over 100 cases a year uniformly, so this question should be something we can address in the future.
We do use Xeloda, but do not know if it is necessary.
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