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Gastrointestinal Cancers • Medical Oncology • NCI-CCC Tumor Board Question • Indiana University • NCI-CCC GI Tumor Board Question
Would you offer adjuvant therapy for poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma of the galbladder s/p R0 resection with negative nodes?
Would you offer chemotherapy alone per data from BILCAP or is there any role of radiation?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
We would offer adjuvant chemotherapy to this patient based on data from the BILCAP study. Final results are still to be published in a peer reviewed journal. This study enrolled patients with biliary malignancies who were randomized to adjuvant capecitabine vs. observation following resection. 18% o...
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