A 15-Year Single-Institution Retrospective Study of Primary Pancreatic Cancer Treated with Non-Ablative Palliative Radiotherapy.

Randa Kamel, Tinghua Zhang, Suzanne Comino, Kristopher Dennis

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Article in Cancers, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Randa KamelDepartment of Radiation Oncology, UZ Brussel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Jette, 1090 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-6505-9359

Tinghua ZhangOttawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L6, Canada.

Suzanne CominoRadiation Medicine Program, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L6, Canada.

Kristopher DennisDivision of Radiation Oncology, The Ottawa Hospital, The University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L6, Canada.

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Abstract

We studied the use of palliative radiotherapy (RT) among patients with primary, non-curable, locally advanced pancreatic cancer. In this subset of patients, with very poor survival, various palliative RT dose fractionation schemes are used; but, in the absence of a guideline, practice patterns vary, and dose choice is mainly based on the physician's intuition. We divided the patients into three groups, according to the dose fractionation schedules received: low (A), intermediate (B), and high (C) dose groups, to study the potential differences in outcome between the different dose prescriptions. Cohort:

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locally advanced pancreatic cancerpalliative pancreatic cancer radiationpalliative radiotherapyprimary pancreatic cancersingle-institution retrospective cohort study

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PMID38473242

DOI10.3390/cancers16050881

PMCPMC10930540

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