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. 2020 May 15;23:91–99. doi: 10.1016/j.ctro.2020.05.005

Table 1.

Chronologic data analysis from a 35 years literature review period on IORT for Pancreatic cancer after surgical resection (31 articles, 1.435 patients).

Treatment Characteristics 19811989 19901999 20002009 20102018
Resected
 ▪ #Studies 5 12 8 6
 ▪ #Patients 46 257 611 521
References [18], [19], [20], [21], [28] [14], [22], [23], [24], [29], [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], [35], [36] [25], [26], [37], [38], [39], [41], [42], [43] [12], [15], [16], [17], [27], [44]



IORT
 ▪ Dose range (Gy) 10–40 10–30 7.5–25 10–30
 ▪ Mean dose (Gy) 25 15 15 15
 ▪ Electron beam 100% 100% 100% 75%
 ▪ 250 kV 25%



EBRT delivered
> 50% patients 75% 39% 75% 50%



Adjuvant CT
> 50% pts 0% 70% 100% 60%



Median Survival
 ▪ Range (months) 5–12.6 10–19 9–28 19–35
 ▪ Mean (months) 9.5 15 15 23

IORT: IntraOperative Radiation Therapy; EBRT: external beam radiotherapy; CT: chemotherapy; Gy: Gray; kV: kilovoltage