Notice of Removal: Shear wave elasticity imaging of pancreatic cancer tumors treated with immunotherapy and radiotherapy

Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive disease a 5-year-survival rate less than 7%. To improve the patient overall survival, recent developments in pancreatic cancer research have been targeting various components of the tumor microenvironment such as the extracellular matrix, blood vessels and immune cells. We hypothesize that targeted therapies will affect the biomechanics of the tumor microenvironment. To corroborate this hypothesis, we used shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) to investigate how different therapies (immunotherapy and radiotherapy) impact tumor stiffness.