What is your approach for adjuvant chemotherapy for a patient with colon adenocarcinoma, pMMR, T2 with 3 positive lymph nodes and 2 pericolic adipose tumor deposits?
Do you consider this low risk or high-risk stage III?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
This is a very timely question.The question is, should this patient be considered high-risk stage III even if this patient has a resected stage III colon cancer with pathology stage of pT2pN1b under the AJCC 8th edition? What is the prognostic value of tumor deposits (TD)?Tumor deposits (TD) in the ...