How would you treat a patient with T4N1M0 GEJ adenocarcinoma with local progression after concurrent chemoRT who still has resectable disease?
Residual GEJ mass and progression in local lymph nodes after carbo+taxol chemoRT without distant metastases.
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Medical Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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This is a tricky but thankfully rare scenario.
My answer depends on the nature of the local progression. The more favorable situation involves local persistence of the primary tumor with a modest increase in locoregional lymph nodes. This situation would essentially represent a lack of response to ch...
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