How do you manage a patient with gastric/GE junction carcinoma who has positive lymph nodes at resection after neoadjuvant chemotherapy?
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Medical Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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 ...