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Radiation Oncology • Gastrointestinal Cancers • Medical Oncology • Liver and Pancreas Tumors
In patients witih locally advanced pancreatic cancer, how long would you wait after 1st line induction chemotherapy with FOLFIRINOX before you image for assessment of response and deciding about 2nd-line therapy?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
We image with Ca-19-9 every 3 months and consolidate with ablative chemoradiation after a minimum of 4 months of FOLFIRINOX. We do not give second line chemotherapy for locally advanced pancreatic cancer unless patients do not tolerate FOLFIRINOX in spite of dose reductions, or experience ...
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