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Do you treat elective nodes in unresectable pancreas when treating with 15fx?

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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

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 thi...

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