How do you manage patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma who progress during neoadjuvant FOLFIRINOX, such that borderline resectable disease is now unresectable but still localized?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Gastrointestinal Cancers • Medical Oncology • Liver and Pancreas Tumors

Is there evidence for radiation therapy in this setting?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

Great question; this area is rapidly evolving. I hope some of the ViewRay crowd will see this and chime in. We give ablative doses of radiation (~100Gy BED). That results in survival that is similar to surgery in patients like this (inoperable in an aggressive surgery practice at MSKCC, MSS in prep...

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Radiation Oncologist at Meadowview Regional Medical Center
Ablative therapy can have a significant rate of co...

Radiation Oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Interesting comment. What data are you basing that...

Radiation Oncologist at Meadowview Regional Medical Center
Very impressive results with a real ablative dose....

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice

I agree with @Christopher H. Crane and have in the past few years transitioned to ablative SBRT since moving to an institution with a ViewRay MRIdian Linac, based on the dose intensification data from MD Anderson that Dr. Crane mentioned (Krishnan et al., IJROBP 2016) and some of the early ViewRay d...

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice

Proceed with regional radiotherapy with adjuvant chemotherapy.

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Radiation Oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
The randomized evidence (LAP-07 trial) does not su...

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