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Radiation and chemo for pancreatic cancer: Is it effective?
Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Feb 4, 2023 | Replies (18)Comment receiving replies
Find out if your tumor is a good target for SBRT. This is a focused form of delivering radiation to a specific target rather than wide area dosing. It's very specialized and you might have to look for a facility that can treat you. The downside to SBRT is that you'll need a procedure to insert gold fiducials into the target area. The fiducials guide the SBRT beam. Good luck.
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My husband had 4 months of Folfirinox, followed by 3 weeks of chemoradiation. The chemo drug was oral Xeloda (5 - FU) . He tolerated both much better than I expected. Mostly fatigue. Some nausea and diarrhea. He was hoping to have the Whipple surgery in June but do to a rising tumor marker ( even though his scans looked good) they sent him back to do another 2 months of chemo. This time they are doing the Gemcitibine/Abraxane regimen and he is not tolerating it well at all. He is just hopeful to have the surgery in September. I wouldn’t worry about the radiation. Chemo is much tougher. How old are you? I don’t understand why surgery is not an option. My husband is 65.