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Would you offer adjuvant TKI to patients with locally recurrent multifocal adenoid cystic carcinoma?

For example, for a patient that has been through multiple disfiguring surgeries and radiation and wants to delay time to next resection.
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Medical Oncology · University of Michigan Medical School
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I would not give a TKI in the adjuvant setting following a local recurrence that was resected. The only data that we have with these agents are in the setting of metastatic disease. The likelihood of recurrence, I believe, would be quite high once the agents are stopped, as we do not know how long of a period to treat. Finally, the toxicity profiles related to TKI therapy can be quite severe, leading to poor compliance and dosage reductions in many patients, which could ultimately affect outcome...

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