Radiation therapy improves survival times in pancreatic cancer surgery patients, making it, like chemotherapy, an important addition to treatment, Mayo Clinic research shows. Whether or not radiation benefits patients after pancreatic cancer surgery has been a long-standing question, and the findings offer definitive evidence that it does, says study senior author Christopher Hallemeier, M.D., a Mayo radiation oncologist. In future studies, researchers plan to examine whether radiation is even more beneficial before pancreatic cancer surgery. For more information, see the Mayo Clinic News Network.
