When would you consider sequential chemotherapy and radiation rather than concurrent for early stage cervical cancer with high risk pathologic features?
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Radiation Oncology · Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
How much of the results of the STARS (Huang et al., PMID 33443541) (showing improved DFS with SCRT compared to CCRT) driven by only a 62% completion rate of CCRT (compared to 73.4% in SCRT, p< 0.001) as per the specified protocol is unknown.
While the authors state within their results section that t...
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Radiation Oncology · University of Kentucky
A critical review of this paper is not appropriate in this forum. Yes, I would consider it. No, I don't believe that this paper creates a new standard of care at this point. The differences in OS are very small, and the overall compliance with the SCRT arm is still less than 75% (drop out rate mostl...