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Would you recommend 3 or 6 months adjuvant chemo for low risk Stage III sigmoid cancer (T3/N1), but with positive LVI and PNI?
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Medical Oncology · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
I would recommend 3 months of CAPOX in this case. For a patient with stage III colon cancer, the presence of LVI and PNI should not influence the treatment plan.
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Medical Oncology · Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
I agree overall with my colleagues from MD Anderson and USC, but would be more emphatic that 3 months of Cape-OX is sufficient. LVI and PNI differentiation are inconsistent pathologic "markers" which generally are not of consistent significance in multi-variate analyses across trials. We should reca...