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For metastatic pancreatic cancer, is there a role for maintenance chemotherapy if patient has stable disease at the end of 12 cycles of dose reduced modified FOLFIRINOX?

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Medical Oncology · Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
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Although the original FOLFIRINOX data (Conroy, NEJM, 2011) evaluated efficacy of a six-month course of treatment in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer, few of us would feel comfortable discontinuing chemotherapy entirely for these patients at the end of a six month period. In the absence of ...

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