How would you recommend treating locally recurrent pancreatic cancer?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Gastrointestinal Cancers

In a patient who has undergone resection and adjuvant chemotherapy who then recurs locally, how would you recommend treating? Would you treat just the area of recurrence? Regional nodes?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

Referrals for these patients have been increasing over the last few years, most likely with the advent of more effective systemic therapy (or perhaps with the decrease of adjuvant radiation). I have not found much data to cite for these patients; but I have recommended stability/non-metastatic over ...

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Radiation Oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
I agree, these patients are more common now with l...

Radiation Oncologist at UC Irvine Health/Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Radiation Oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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Radiation Oncologist at UC Irvine Health/Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Thank you so much for your quick reply. I'd be ner...

Radiation Oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
That would probably be ok based on their data but ...

Radiation Oncologist at New York Proton Center
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Radiation Oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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Radiation Oncologist at Augusta University
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Radiation Oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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