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How does tumor stage affect your choice of adjuvant chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer?

Would you consider gem+Abraxane to avoid FOLFIRINOX toxicity in a small, node-negative tumor?
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Medical Oncology · University of Wisconsin
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I have moved my practice for resectable PDAC (and certainly borderline resectable tumors) almost entirely to neoadjuvant therapy. The SWOG S1505 study (see links below) has shown that either gem/Abraxane or FOLFIRINOX is appropriate. In the adjuvant setting, there is better data for FFX and gem/cis ...

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