Pancreatic Cancer
Cancer of the Pancreas/ Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
For more information on treatments for pancreas cancer we suggest that you visit the pancreas page of the CyberKnife manufacturer's web site. As protocols are developed and extended Accuray Inc update their materials accordingly. You can be sure of finding the latest published information on this area of treatment, though you cannot apply for treatment there.
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Pancreas treatments are complex and multi-modal in approach. Not all CyberKnife® centres offer these as they require special software and treatments may be difficult to coordinate for international patients.
Unfortunately the great majority of diagnosed cases are late stage and metastatic, making treatment difficult or impossible and survival rates are poor. Although making only a small proportion of all cancers diagnosed it is one of the major causes of death. Surgery is the treatment of choice for early, resectable pancreatic cancer, but only about 20% of tumours are resectable, failing which chemotherapy has been used as an adjunct to radiation treatment.
Of all the forms of cancer or neurosurgical treatments offered by CyberKnife, pancreatic cancer makes up a large number of our direct patient enquiries. This is clearly due to extensive coverage in the media of one well known individual. Patients should bear in mind that media reports frequently over-simplify or may simply be wrong and there are different forms of pancreatic cancer, some of which are more amenable to CyberKnife treatment than others.
Individual CyberKnife centres may adopt slightly different approaches to which cases they will treat and how they will treat them, including how many treatment sessions are required. Visit Accuray Inc. pancreas cancer page
Once you have considered Accuray's general information on pancreas cancer you can make a treatment enquiry through this web site. We are currently able to pass pancreas cancer cases for assessment to the following centres:
Other pancreas centres
Our web site MHL Clinics also features the following centres which are of interest to patients with pancreatic cancer..
Rinecker Proton Therapy Centre, Munich, Germany is the first European proton radiation centre for outpatient treatment of tumours to offer a complete hospital setting.
The Pancreas Clinic of the University Medical Centre, Hamburg, Germany, under Prof Jakob Izbicki is a multidisciplinary treatment and research centre with some of the best known experts on the subject in Europe.
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