evidence. 16 Long-term outcomes of both neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapy and local excision need to be confirmed by large prospective randomized trials. Currently, the Dutch national guidelines consider these treatments experimental and state that these
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Evaluation of a Completion Total Mesorectal Excision in Patients After Local Excision of Rectal Cancer: A Word of Caution
Julia T. van Groningen, Pieter van Hagen, Rob A.E.M. Tollenaar, Jurriaan B. Tuynman, Perla J. Marang-van de Mheen, Pascal G. Doornebosch, Pieter J. Tanis, Eelco J.R. de Graaf, and on behalf of the Dutch Colorectal Audit
Outcomes Following Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer in Women Aged 40 Years and Younger: Impact of Pathologic Nodal Response
Margaret M. Kozak, Clare E. Jacobson, Rie von Eyben, Erqi L. Pollom, Melinda Telli, and Kathleen C. Horst
adjuvant treatment to improve outcomes, and several trials have evaluated escalation of adjuvant therapy. 16 – 18 The recently published CREATE-X trial 19 evaluated 910 patients with HER2-negative breast cancer who had residual invasive disease or LN
Gastric and Esophageal Cancers: Guidelines Updates
Presented by: Crystal S. Denlinger, Kristina A. Matkowskyj, and Mary F. Mulcahy
-free survival, there was clear benefit for nivolumab as adjuvant therapy (22.4 vs 11.0 months; HR, 0.69; P =.0003), with the benefit sustained over time. Nivolumab was favored in all subgroups. “This is the most robust data we have seen showing any benefit
Updates in the Treatment of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Presented by: Midhun Malla, Katrina S. Pedersen, and Aparna R. Parikh
neoadjuvant arm. 7 The neoadjuvant arm involved administering oxaliplatin and fluorouracil or capecitabine for 6 weeks, followed by surgery, and then up to a perioperative total of 3 versus 6 months of adjuvant therapy. This trial revealed that patients with
Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer: Recommendations for Biomarker Testing and Treatment
Presented by: Dara L. Aisner and Gregory J. Riely
NCCN Guidelines now list osimertinib as an option for adjuvant therapy in patients with resectable stage IIB–IIIA or high-risk stage IB–IIA NSCLC harboring EGFR mutations who received previous adjuvant chemotherapy or are ineligible to receive
Personalized Medicine and Oncology Practice Guidelines: A Case Study of Contemporary Biomarkers in Colorectal Cancer
Robin K. Kelley, Stephanie L. Van Bebber, Kathryn A. Phillips, and Alan P. Venook
tumor specimens of patients enrolled in randomized studies of adjuvant 5-fluorouracil with levamisole or leucovorin compared with no adjuvant therapy. 98 This study showed no improvement in overall survival in patients with stage II and III colon cancer
Predictors of Guideline Treatment Nonadherence and the Impact on Survival in Patients With Colorectal Cancer
Robert B. Hines, Alina Barrett, Philip Twumasi-Ankrah, Dominique Broccoli, Kimberly K. Engelman, Joaquina Baranda, Elizabeth A. Ablah, Lisette Jacobson, Michelle Redmond, Wei Tu, and Tracie C. Collins
and the decreasing likelihood of receiving neoadjuvant/adjuvant therapy. 42 , 43 , 47 A reason for these findings has been the increasing prevalence of comorbid disease in older age groups. Consistent with the literature, 10 , 38 , 42 , 43 , 47 – 52
Integration of Systemic and Liver-Directed Therapies for Locally Advanced Hepatocellular Cancer: Harnessing Potential Synergy for New Therapeutic Horizons
Eric H. Bent, Eric Wehrenberg-Klee, Eugene J. Koay, Lipika Goyal, and Jennifer Y. Wo
individually been evaluated in the neoadjuvant and adjuvant settings with mixed results. 74 – 77 At this time, the guidelines of the AASLD and the European Association for the Study of the Liver do not recommend neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapy in most patients
Treating Elderly Patients With Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer
Elizabeth R. Kessler, Janet B. Kukreja, Christopher L. Geiger, and Stacy M. Fischer
toxicity calculator, then they may opt for surgical resection and discussion of the role of adjuvant therapy based on the pathologic risk identified at the time of surgery. Table 2. Criteria for Cisplatin Ineligibility For patients who do not receive NAC
Radiation Therapy in Operable and Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
Andrew H. Ko and Christopher H. Crane
relative importance of chemotherapy and radiation as adjuvant therapy ( Table 1 ). The ESPAC-1 trial, 2 conducted by the European Study Group for Pancreatic Cancer, used a 2-by-2 factorial design in which patients were randomly assigned after surgery to 1