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Gastrointestinal Cancers • Medical Oncology • NCI-CCC Tumor Board Question • Indiana University • NCI-CCC GI Tumor Board Question • Pancreatic Cancer
Would you recommend adjuvant chemotherapy for a patient with subcentimeter pancreatic adenocarcinoma incidentally found during a Whipple resection for high risk IPMN?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
Short answer is yes, I do. IPMNs with a foci of invasive carcinoma are at risk for recurrence. The prognosis is generally felt to be more favorable than with conventional PDAC, but that may be due to a higher percentage of them being found at an earlier stage. (E.g. ~25% IPMN-associated carcinomas d...
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