How do you manage patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma who progress during neoadjuvant FOLFIRINOX, such that borderline resectable disease is now unresectable but still localized?
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 prepa...
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I agree with @Dr. First Last 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 data fr...
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Proceed with regional radiotherapy with adjuvant chemotherapy.
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