Yet, the results show the marked majority of people succumb to their disease quickly after standard or no therapy. Our radiosurgery group recently performed an analysis of our data which I report here. This is superb and markedly better than even direct infusion of radioactive materials into the pancreas cancer. In our institution we evaluated patients going through all methods of treatment. For those patients having no therapy the median survival rate was less than two months.
Metastases are nodules of cancer away from the primary site.
The presence of metastases means the cancer has traveled and the prognosis has dimmed. We looked at outcome based upon cancer volume, that is the volume of cancer in the primary site. We broke off the volume at 60cc or cubic centimeters. The median survival was 10.4 months if cancer measured less than 60cc and 11.0 months if the cancer measured more than 60cc. Thus, our body radiosurgery program was equally effective regardless of cancer size.