[Intraoperative radiotherapy-Indications and options in visceral surgery].

CONCLUSION: Although the effectiveness of IORT cannot be finally assessed due to limited evidence, IORT is established in the clinical practice as a supplement to the multimodal treatment of (recurrent) rectal cancer and sarcomas. Gastric and pancreatic carcinomas are further indications but additional studies are necessary to clearly define the role of IORT in these tumor entities. An important factor to achieve a benefit with IORT seems to be patient selection in order to obtain good local control of local recurrences as well as overall survival rates for patients with primary or recurrent cancer. PMID: 32350557 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Der Chirurg - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Chirurg Source Type: research