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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

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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