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Would you offer radiation therapy for stage IV pancreatic adenocarcinoma with liver metastases after 12 cycles of FOLFIRINOX and maintenance capecitabine, now with locally progressive disease at the pancreatic primary and rising CA 19-9?
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Radiation Oncology · Brigham and Women's Hospital
Although not stated in the question, I assume this is a situation in which the liver metastases appear to be responding to chemotherapy with a radiographic partial response or stable disease. If the patient were progressing in both the liver and the pancreas, the next step in management would most l...