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Treatment of Small Intestine Adenocarcinoma

Source: Small Intestine Cancer Treatment (PDQ®)–Health Professional Version, National Cancer Institute.

Source updated: March 6, 2025 · Captured 2026-09-09.

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Treatment options:

For resectable primary disease:

Radical surgical resection.[1,2]

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For unresectable primary disease:

Surgical bypass of obstructing lesion.

For unresectable primary disease:

Palliative radiation therapy.

For unresectable primary disease:

Clinical trials evaluating methods to improve local control, such as the use of radiation therapy with radiosensitizers with or without systemic chemotherapy.

For unresectable metastatic disease:

Clinical trials evaluating the value of new anticancer drugs and biological therapy (phase I and phase II studies).

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