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Under what circumstances you would consider treating stage II colon cancer with adjuvant chemotherapy?

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Medical Oncology · Mayo Clinic

This is a very interesting question especially at present time.

We know not every patient with stage II colon cancer will benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy, and the absolute survival benefit is less than 5% for 5FU based adjuvant chemo treatment (but no category 1 evidence). Oxaliplatin-based adjuv...

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