Would you offer adjuvant chemoRT to a patient with pancreatic adenocarcinoma who underwent neoadjuvant therapy with FOLFIRINOX and SBRT but had a positive (neck) margin on resection and is now s/p adjuvant chemotherapy?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
This is why low dose, small volume SBRT is a flawed neoadjuvant treatment. This is possibly a marginal miss. It rarely happened in the past with conventional pre-op treatment but now it is happening commonly. Many patients are suffering because of it. It is important to assess t...