Do you consider adjuvant chemoradiation for resected pancreatic cancer with anterior surface “margin” positivity?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Whipple specimens are very difficult to process and evaluate. It requires collaboration between the surgeon and the pathologist to identify the relevant margins. I can't recall ever seeing this situation but it does not seem to me that the anterior peritoneal surface of the pancreas is a "true" marg...