If a patient with initially borderline resectable pancreatic cancer receives neoadjuvant CHT followed by CRT and is ultimately deemed unresectable, do you consider an RT boost?
Would you manage this differently based on radiation dose (36/15 fx vs 50.4/28 fx)?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
I am careful not to give low-dose preop radiation to someone who might not have surgery. We have done a prospective trial to show that surgery is safe after an ablative dose (Reyngold et al., IJROBP, 2025). There is no published evidence that a boost after a two-month break will be helpful or safe, ...