percentage. Of course, a few caveats are warranted. The bulk of these reports are derived from studies of women taking adjuvant therapy for hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. Such patients often have a favorable prognosis and might reasonably be
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Srinivas K. Tantravahi, and Theresa L. Werner
pathologically staged as FIGO stage IA (pT1a pN0 Mx). She received no adjuvant therapy. She returned 3 months later with recurrent vaginal bleeding. A 2-cm friable mass was visualized at the apex of the vaginal cuff on pelvic examination and was resected
Michelle T. Ashworth and Adil Daud
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
Ami Vyas, S. Suresh Madhavan, Usha Sambamoorthi, Xiaoyun (Lucy) Pan, Michael Regier, Hannah Hazard, and Sita Kalidindi
, 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
Kathleen Harnden and Kimberly Blackwell
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
Clayton A. Smith and Lisa A. Kachnic
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
Joleen M. Hubbard and Axel Grothey
% 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
Daniel G. Coit, Robert Andtbacka, Christopher K. Bichakjian, Raza A. Dilawari, Dominick DiMaio, Valerie Guild, Allan C. Halpern, F. Stephen Hodi, Mohammed Kashani-Sabet, Julie R. Lange, Anne Lind, Lainie Martin, Mary C. Martini, Scott K. Pruitt, Merrick I. Ross, Stephen F. Sener, Susan M. Swetter, Kenneth K. Tanabe, John A. Thompson, Vijay Trisal, Marshall M. Urist, Jeffrey Weber, and Michael K. Wong
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
Sherif R. Z. Abdel-Misih, Lai Wei, Al B. Benson III, Steven Cohen, Lily Lai, John Skibber, Neal Wilkinson, Martin Weiser, Deborah Schrag, and Tanios Bekaii-Saab
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
Donna Trauth and Lori J. Goldstein
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