How do you manage a patient with gastric/GE junction carcinoma who has positive lymph nodes at resection after neoadjuvant chemotherapy?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Gastrointestinal Cancers • Gastric Cancer • Esophageal Cancer • Medical Oncology

If you would elect for adjuvant therapy, which study helps guide your choice of regimen?

Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution

So, we know from the review of the MAGIC study by Dr. Smyth that ypN+ tumors are associated with a worse prognosis than ypN0 tumors. However, there doesn't seem to be anything we can clearly do about it with standard options:1) Changing chemotherapy is not likely to be helpful. Phase III studies in ...

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