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Would you electively treat any lymph node regions for small cell carcinoma of the pancreas?
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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
In general, we model treatment for these patients on the regimens used for SCCa of the lung. The most important thing to establish is that non-operative management is the preferred approach due to the risk of distant metastases. In general, the value of elective nodal treatment is inversely proporti...