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I suggest you look for Magnetic Resonance guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy with a Linek machine at a large university health system. There are only about 27 of these machines in the US and 67 in the world. This is a game changer for pancreatic cancer. Check out a video about this treatment option on the web site of Sloan Kettering in New York. Massey Cancer Center of VCU in Richmond is where my husband got his treatment. UVA also has this machine. I found out about this . Our oncologist at that time had never heard about it. All oncologists treating pancreatic cancer patients need to get informed about this „curative“ protocol, not palliative!
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Oncologists could certainly benefit their patients by keeping up to date on best treatments. I believe all of them should connect in some way with a pancreatic center of excellence. Difficult for the general oncologist to keep up with everything.
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Thank you for sharing this. I hadn't seen anything about it. What stage is your husband's cancer, if I may ask? I wonder because I'm assuming the MRI-LINAC machine can work only with the main tumor, not metastases, and that having mets would rule out using the machine.