How do you treat stage I head of pancreas adenocarcinoma in an older patient who is not a candidate for chemotherapy or surgery?
Do you treat with radiation therapy and what dose do you use? What dose do you accept to the duodenum?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
The question of how to manage an elderly patient who is not a candidate for chemotherapy or surgery is a really important one. I would argue that this question is not unique to an elderly patient but should be asked for ANY patient who cannot receive systemic therapy. We are fortunately living in a ...
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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
The MDACC data are with pre-operative treatment in surgical candidates. Many are now giving ablative doses with median OS results >2 years in these patients that are similar to surgery. Our recent results (Reyngold et al., PMID 33704353, Jolissaint et al., PMID 34269717) show this in much worse p...
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Radiation Oncologist at Florida International University - Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
I agree with Dr. @Christopher H. Crane and I will ...
I agree with Dr. @Christopher H. Crane and I will ...