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Do you consider additional chemotherapy or durvalumab after definitive concurrent chemo/RT for Stage II NSCLC for patients who are not surgical candidates?

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Radiation Oncology · Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center

Staging is man-made and somewhat capricious and as stands now essentially completely unmoored from biology in NSCLC. Durvalumab is obviously very moored to biology in NSCLC. There are times we "extrapolate" in oncology; it's tough not to do this in settings where no *specific* data exists but "adjac...

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Medical Oncology · University of Minnesota

Intriguing given the results from the PACIFIC trial presented and published in 2017 (PFS benefit) and updated very recently (OS benefit). However, in the absence of definitive data in which the benefit clearly outweighs the potential harm, I would not recommend adjuvant durvalumab to patients treate...

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Medical Oncology · Fox Chase Cancer Center

If a patient is not a candidate for surgery but has no contra indication to treatment with durvalumab, I would offer it.

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