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and MEK inhibitors, and effective adjuvant therapies can be expected to increase the impact of accurate staging with SLNB on overall survival. At the time of metastasis to lymph nodes in 2002, the patient was treated with complete lymphadenectomy

, radiotherapy (RT), and adjuvant therapy. 2 – 6 Regardless of these extensive costs to Medicare, there is insufficient up-to-date information on healthcare utilization and costs incurred by specific services, and factors significantly contributing to these

improve 10-year OS compared with observation (51.8% vs 48.4%; P =.32). 13 Although early analysis demonstrated a DFS benefit of adjuvant therapy for patients with ypT0–2 (hazard ratio [HR], 0.64; 95% CI, 0.45–0.91; P =.13), this benefit was not observed

% of patients undergoing total colectomy will have 5 or more bowel movements per day, and 30% will have issues with fecal incontinence. 34 , 35 Adjuvant Therapy for Stage II and III Colon Cancer Patients with high-risk stage II and III disease

recent prospective trial to date evaluating zoledronic acid in addition to standard adjuvant therapy in ESBC. 21 At the final efficacy analysis after a median follow-up Table 1 Characteristics of Published Phase III Trials With Zoledronic Acid

the question as to the utility of the current standard of care, which is 6 months of perioperative systemic therapy. Given the unclear utility of adjuvant therapy after preoperative therapy has been administered, the clinical importance of pathologic

dissection for melanoma . J Clin Oncol 2004 ; 22 : 3677 – 3684 . 70 Cascinelli N Belli F MacKie RM . Effect of long-term adjuvant therapy with interferon alpha-2a in patients with regional node metastases from cutaneous melanoma: a randomised

as adjuvant therapy for patients with node-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2–positive breast cancer . J Clin Oncol 2012 ; 30 : 3792 – 3799 . 5. Bonneterre J Roché H Kerbrat P . Long-term cardiac follow-up in relapse

1998 ; 17 : 101 . 65 Eifel P Axelson JA Costa J . National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Statement: Adjuvant therapy for breast cancer, November 1-3 2000 . J Natl Cancer Inst 2001 ; 93 : 979 . www

fusion gene EML-4 ALK . This mutation seems to be mutually exclusive with the EGFR and KRAS mutation in the phase I study. Adjuvant Therapy In 2004, the International Adjuvant Lung Cancer Trial showed an approximately 5% survival advantage