How do you decide timing of adjuvant radiation with respect to chemotherapy for a patient with resected pancreatic adenocarcinoma with microscopic positive margins?
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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Level 1 evidence supports chemotherapy, FOLFIRINOX is the standard. The benefit of radiation is modest in comparison and based on post-hoc analysis of phase III trials (ESPAC-1, and others that are themselves nearly uninterpretable). The answer to this question is chemotherapy followed by restaging ...