[The role of radiotherapy in the treatment of the pancreas carcinoma (author's transl)]. / Rolle der Strahlentherapie in der Behandlung des Pankreaskarzinoms.

Although diagnosis of the pancreas carcinoma is only possible in an advanced stage, it is recommendable to try a radiotherapy as long as there are no remote metastases. If the patients are adequately selected, further if the target volume is exactly localized and charged with a high dose, it should be possible to reach considerably longer survival times. Different irradiation methods with ultrahard photons and high energy electrons are compared with regard to their therapeutic value.