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Radiation Oncology • Gastrointestinal Cancers
How long after pancreatic SBRT do you wait to re-image?
This will influence the decision to operate or not, so you want to give it enough time to see a response, but given that it's a disease predisposed to metastasizing quickly, you also don't want to wait too long. Is 4-6 weeks okay?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Standard imaging interval after preoperative long course radiation has been 5 weeks, by that analogy after a 1 week course of radiation it should be longer but it's an arbitrary decision. The only thing I would avoid is operating in less than 5 weeks because the acute reactions need to resolve. In t...
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