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Do you offer durvalumab to patients with stage IIIB NSCLC after chemoradiation if they are also on long term dialysis for ESRD?
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Medical Oncology · Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Antibodies are generally not dialyzable with conventional methods. Given the cancer diagnosis, these patients are not candidates for transplant in the short term. With a prognosis of advanced stage NSCLC worse than the prognosis arising from ESRD already on long-term dialysis, I will offer the optio...