Modeling Combined Chemotherapy and Particle Therapy for Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is the only cancer for which deaths are predicted to increase in 2014 and beyond. Combined radiochemotherapy protocols using gemcitabine and hypofractionated X-rays are ongoing in several clinical trials. Recent results indicate that charged particle therapy substant...

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Main Authors: Durante, Marco, Tommasino, Francesco, Yamada, Shigeru
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4492201/