Radiation Oncology

Liver and Pancreas Tumors   

Questions discussed in this category



Colloid is a rare histologic subtype and considered to have more favorable outcomes compared with usual ductal adenocarcinoma, but no dedicated prospe...

Would you recommend radiation, systemic therapy alone, or chemoRT? What about if this recurrence occurred during or shortly after completion of adjuva...

In light of the SIRveNIB trial results and now IMbrave150, what is the role of intra-arterial therapy now?

I can't convince the surgeons to refer their patients for adjuvant RT because the prospective data is messy and doesn’t seem to indicate a benef...

Is there a "best" way to approach treatment of the viral infection i.e concurrently with therapy, prior to therapy, delayed or post therapy? Does this...

Would you alter your SBRT dose? How long would you hold the VEGF inhibitor before and after? Does the primary matter (e.g. NSCLC vs. colorectal)?

What features would make you more likely to recommend radiation therapy with chemotherapy?

Have you ever seen toxicity related to diaphragm dose with conventional fractionation?  

How would the new data presented at ASCO GI 2021 from from Alliance A021501 influence your answer?

When planning SBRT cases for primary liver cancers, it is very difficult to see the tumor on the non-contrast 4D scan. How do you use information from...

For cases with positive margins, do you boost to 54 Gy? If so, do you boost the entire tumor bed or only the area of the positive margin? 

I recently had a patient with unresectable disease ask for a PET before starting RT but I’m not sure there is a benefit. 


Papers discussed in this category


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Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2008-07-20

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2008-07-20

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Cancer, 2015-04-01

JAMA, 2012 Jul 11

JAMA, 2008-03-05

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2011-08-01

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2011-09-01

American journal of clinical oncology, 2011-02

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2013-12-01

JAMA, 2007 Jan 17

J. Clin. Oncol., 2020 Feb 27

Cancer, 2011-09-01

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2015-07-01

Cancer treatment reviews, 2017-02

Strahlenther Onkol, 2019 Feb 08

Radiother Oncol, 2018 Jul 09

J. Hepatol., 2019 Apr 06

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2016-03-15

Cancer medicine, 2019-05

American journal of clinical oncology, 2019-03

N Engl J Med, 2020 May 14

Liver Cancer, 2019 Sep 18

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.), 2018-08

Radiology, 2018-06

Hepatology, 2021 Mar 19

The Lancet. Oncology, 2013-04

Ann Surg,

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2021 Aug 01

J Clin Oncol, 2022 Jan 27