No. 33Gy / 5 fx, "Low-dose palliative SBRT" may not help at all. In spite of what you will hear many radiation oncologists tell you, it is a palliative therapy with similar overall survival to 50.4Gy in 28 fractions in every study of usually highly selected patients. It's only more co...

I have been giving definitive doses for LAPc for the past 10 years using CT-on-rails at MDACC and now CBCT since moving to Memorial Sloan-Kettering 1.5 years ago. I have probably only been giving the ablative doses listed above for the past 6 years. The initial criteria essentially were th...