personalize systemic adjuvant therapy choices,” Dr. Ward said. “The available assays have strong prognostic capability, and more data on this are coming.” Among the available assays are the 21-gene panel (Oncotype Dx), the 70-gene panel (MammaPrint), the 50
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just predicting a recurrence. It’s actually detecting residual disease. It appears to be the most useful prognostic assay, but there are unanswered questions, and we still don’t know if it can guide adjuvant therapy,” she said. Although ctDNA assays can
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the completion of adjuvant therapy. Thus, physical activity has been shown to have several benefits for patients with breast cancer both during and after adjuvant therapy. No clear consensus exists on the “best” type of physical activity, but
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adjuvant therapy data (n=3). A total of 29 patients received postoperative RT and were excluded from the analysis of factors associated with omission of preoperative RT. The minimum follow-up time was 120 days for all patients. Variables Analyzed
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34%, 1 , 3 a favorable outcome that has been attributed to the combination of increased screening mammography and improved adjuvant therapy. 4 However, despite the steady increase in DCIS detection and treatment in the 1990s, the subsequent
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considered at high risk for recurrence after adjuvant therapy, interferon-alfa appears to confer a small benefit. The value of high-dose interferon was first established in 1996 by Kirkwood et al. 5 for patients with T4 lesions or evidence of regional
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pancreatic cancer, then surgical consultation is recommended. Restaging with high-quality abdominal and chest imaging is also recommended after surgery for resectable disease and before initiation of adjuvant therapy (see page 980). It should also be
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observation and serial ultrasonography in selected cases. 59 Role for Adjuvant Therapies in Pediatric Patients With Node-Positive AMP In the United States, high-dose interferon alfa-2b (HDI) and pegylated interferon alfa-2b are the only approved