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How do you justify adjuvant radiotherapy in pancreatic cancer?
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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Even though it was flawed in every imaginal way, ESPAC1 had a high impact and made post-op chemoradiation experimental. Prior to that, radiation was not based on very much evidence. GITSG was a 40-patient positive study; the EORTC trial was negative. After the ESPAC1, the focus shifted to neoadjuvan...
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Radiation Oncology · Brigham and Women's Hospital
In terms of randomized data, the only positive trial is GITSG. This is so small, accrued over such a long time, and was done such a long time ago, that it cannot be considered compelling evidence for treatment. The EORTC trial had similar results to GITSG, but the results did not reach statistical s...