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How would you manage a patient with T4N1 duodenal adenocarcinoma by EUS with ampullary invasion that is dMMR?

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Medical Oncology · University of Wisconsin

This is a practical question since Lynch syndrome patients do get upper GI (including duodenal) polyps and cancers. Vos et al., JCO 2021 39.3_suppl.244 The standard of care here would be to do surgery at some point, so any deviation from that would need to be discussed carefully with the patient and...

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Medical Oncology · Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Our current trial of Neoadjuvant Pembro for resectable gastric (MMRD, and PDL1+) cancer shows this is feasible and 50% downstaging with 2 doses preop (Kennedy et al. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2023, e16073). For MSI-H, 2 of 3 patients had pCR after 2 doses. I would feel comfortable treating with n...

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