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Would you consider observation instead of a Whipple in a borderline resectable pancreatic cancer patient treated with neoadj CRT who has a radiographic CR?
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Radiation Oncology · University of Utah School of Medicine
There are always many reasons for not doing a Whipple. While it is the one intervention that increases survival most significantly for this disease, it is still rarely curative in the long term and comes with surgical morbidity. Therefore patients with potentially unresectable disease, or with a bad...