How do you approach gastric cancer with oligometastatic disease?
Do you offer perioperative chemo with metastectomy with an isolated liver metastasis? The RENAISSANCE/AIO-FLOT5 trial (PMID:30448343) is seeking to answer this very question. Is there any other data to suggest that this approach is effective? Or would you stick with palliative chemotherapy?
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Medical Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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This is an area of ongoing evaluation and controversy. As with any such areas, there is a lot of dogma and no good data (other than single-center retrospective series from East Asia and, occasionally, the West). The FLOT5 study will indeed hopefully answer this question definitively.
FLOT5 is based o...
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