What is your treatment approach for patients with ampullary carcinoma who are poor surgical candidates but otherwise eligible for curative-intent therapy?
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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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Patients with luminal gastrointestinal tumors including ampullary adenocarcinoma are only eligible for neoadjuvant and palliative doses of radiation because of the tolerance limitation of the surrounding GI mucosa. Although long-term survival is possible without surgery, there are no data documentin...
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