title: Future prospects of radiotherapy in pancreatic cancer.
abstract: To clarify the role of radiation therapy in the treatment of carcinoma of the pancreas studies with radiotherapy alone, combined interventional or concurrent radio-chemotherapy are reviewed. It is shown that in the case of inoperable tumour radiotherapy alone is inadequate, but by the means of a combination of chemotherapy, external beam or interventional (intra-operative, interstitial) irradiation, improvements in local control rates and median survival can be achieved. Following so-called curative resection, a number of studies have shown that adjuvant radio-chemotherapy or interventional treatments possibly prolong survival.
authors.affiliation: Strahlentherapeutische Klinik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fietkau
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sauer
mesh_terms: D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D010166:Palliative Care; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D015996:Survival Rate