When will you prescribe 3 v. 6 months of FOLFOX or XELOX for the adjuvant treatment of colon cancer?

This set of studies will do more to reduce toxicity for patients than any other studies presented at ASCO this year. Based on these results, I plan on treating stage III patients as follows:

1. For T4 and/or N2 patients, I will continue to recommend FOLFOX or CAPOX for 6 months, and continue to adju...

I agree for the most part with Yousuf for shortening to 3 months for those with T3N1 tumors, but I will have a low threshold for recommending 6 months of chemotherapy for any hint of a higher risk. Also for the occasional patient who does desire more aggressive treratment (there are such patients) I...