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Recurrence after Whipple, Folfirinox and Sbrt

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@gamaryanne

@stageivsurvivor based on your knowledge of this disease I would love your thoughts. Many say that they hold radiation “in reserve”. With the advances in radiation like SBRT and proton, as well as histotripsy-what would be the least dangerous approach to curtail some activity lighting up at a surgical margin the liver? That is, the least limiting for future issues that might arise?

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Question not addressed to me and I can’t wait to read response from stageivsurvivor, but fir me based on anecdotal evidence from people on this forum is that it’s a 1x thing so if you have a situation where you have a lot or a few sporadic growths in your liver and especially new growths that keep popping up, then it’s not really going to be effective. It’s been about 13 months since my lesions were identified and I caught them real early on and started chemo and it’s been just the 2 and then 1 lesion ever since; God willing. I tried to choose a radiation specialist very advanced in this field and I actually found Dr. Percy Lee through a post somebody mentioned when he was at Harvard. In early January I’ll find out its effectiveness. Also, some of the procedures you mentioned work better on tumors versus lesions. Again, just my conclusions obtained anecdotally from posts and some readings.