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Do you offer adjuvant chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy for patients with resected atypical carcinoid of the lung with positive mediastinal lymph nodes (T3N2M0)?

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Medical Oncology · Indiana University School of Medicine

I usually offer 4 cycles of adjuvant therapy with cisplatin plus etoposide for patients with surgically resected T3N2 atypical carcinoid tumor. Atypical carcinoid have intermediate chemosensitivity between typical carcinoid tumors and small cell carcinomas. I do not offer adjuvant therapy for typica...

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