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How would you approach adjuvant therapy for a patient with pT2N2 lung adenocarcinoma who underwent an R1 resection and is not amenable to further surgical intervention?

NGS without any actionable mutations and PD-L1 TPS 15%. Would you offer chemotherapy, radiation, or immunotherapy and, if so, in what order?
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Medical Oncology · Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University
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I don't know that I have a trial (much less a randomized one) to prove this, however in this situation, assuming the patient has adequate functional status and has recovered sufficiently from surgery, I would treat the surgery as an extended biopsy. I.e., I would probably (with my radiation colleagues) proceed with definitive chemoRT followed by durvalumab as if a de novo N2 positive stage 3A cancer. NCCN supports either concurrent chemoRT or sequential RT and chemo (for frail) patients who have...

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