Rare pancreatic cancer patients may live longer when treated with radiation therapy

Friday, November 20, 2009 - 10:42 in Health & Medicine

Radiation therapy is effective in achieving local control and palliation in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNTs), despite such tumors being commonly considered resistant to radiation therapy, according to a largest of its kind study in the November 15 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of the American Society fo

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