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  "id": 10474417,
  "title": "Short-course radiation therapy better preserves physical function before pancreatic cancer surgery",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/short-course-radiation-therapy-better-preserves-physical-function",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-28T15:00:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-short-therapy-physical-function-pancreatic.html"
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  "summary": "Patients preparing for pancreatic cancer surgery maintained better physical function and experienced less fatigue with five treatments of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) than with 28 treatments of conventional radiation therapy given with chemotherapy, according to a randomized Phase II clinical trial.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}