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Would you offer adjuvant immunotherapy to a patient with esophageal cancer who completed neoadjuvant chemo+RT followed by surgery a year ago?

For patients who have already undergone trimodality treatment, what time frame do you consider for adjuvant IO?
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Medical Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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I would not. In CheckMate 577, patients could receive nivolumab up to 4 months following surgery. In a patient who is a year out from surgery, we cannot possibly know the benefit of any adjuvant treatment. I, therefore, adhere to the clinical trial population/design.

In general, I try to start treatm...

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