Medical Oncology

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Questions discussed in this category



The SWOG 1801 trial showed improved event-free survival (EFS) in patients receiving neoadjuvant pembrolizumab followed by 15 cycles of adjuvant pembro...

Very-low-risk stage IIIA disease includes non-ulcerated lesions, primary ≤2 mm thickness, SLN metastasis <1 mm. Per NCCN the toxicity of adjuvan...

In patients with no apparent skin involvement but lymph-node showing basal cell carcinoma with extracapsular extension. Would this warrant radiation o...

Majority of patients on the seminal trial (Gross et al., PMID 36094839) had tumors isolated to head & neck, what was the rationale for this?

Do you base your decision on extent of residual disease?  Does the use of (neo)adjuvant immunotherapy have an impact on surgical site size or he...

There have been reports of pembrolizumab leading to lichen planus (my understanding is lichen planus pathophysiology unclear, but potentially autoimmu...

In a patient who would be otherwise fit for surgery +/- adjuvant RT, and the delay is caused by COVID-related OR staffing issues, what would be your a...

Post-auricular cutaneous angiosarcoma, pT1 (19 mm) with negative margins. Unclear if there is any indication for systemic therapy, given early stage a...


Papers discussed in this category


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JAMA oncology, 2017-07-01

Melanoma research, 2015-04

Nature, 2018-01-18

Cureus, 2019 Jun 18

PloS one, 2015

JAMA network open, 2018-11-02

N Engl J Med, 2022 Sep 12

Front Oncol, 2023 Jan 04

Br J Dermatol, 2015 Aug 08

Head Neck, 2021 Jun 07

J Immunother Cancer,

J Immunother Cancer,

Mod Pathol, 2020 Feb 17

Melanoma research, 2017-10

Cancer, 2011-04-15

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2020 Sep 09

Medicine (Baltimore), 2019 Dec

J Clin Invest, 2013 Nov 15

European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990), 2017-04

American journal of clinical oncology, 2005-12

Head & neck, 2016-01

The Laryngoscope, 1994-02

Oral and maxillofacial surgery, 2023 Apr 05

Oncologist, 2020 Oct 28

JAMA Dermatol, 2017 Jul 01

J. Clin. Oncol., 2018 Mar 14

The New England journal of medicine, 2017-11-09

N Engl J Med, 2018 Apr 15

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2020 Oct 30

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2022 Dec 01

Cancer, 2023 Mar 04

Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2022 Aug

N Engl J Med, 2017 Jun 8

Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.), 2015 Apr

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2019 Dec 10

The oncologist, 2021 May 31