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Would you recommend adjuvant therapy for a patient with intraheptic cholangiocarcinoma with an isolated metastasis who has undergone complete surgical resection and is NED?

Patient had a solitary lung metastasis
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Would you recommend adjuvant therapy for a patient with intraheptic cholangiocarcinoma with an isolated metastasis who has undergone complete surgical resection and is NED?

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Medical Oncology · University of Arizona Cancer Center
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Given M1 disease, I would absolutely give adjuvant therapy. Data is of course strongest with 6 months of Capecitabine, but given that you could consider this patient metastatic, it would not be wrong to give 6 months of gem/cis. I would also absolutely profile with NGS, to be prepared for recurrence...

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Medical Oncology · Texas Oncology-San Antonio Babcock
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I would consider this patient oligometastatic, and I would give Gem/Cis and follow with scans, CA 19/9 then gradually, I would drop the cisplatin after 4-6 cycles.

This way, I don't lose the opportunity to aggressively control the disease. This depends, of course, on his/her PS, age, and other fact...

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Medical Oncology · Berkshire Hem Onc PC
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With M1 disease, I am unsure about starting “adjuvant” therapy in an asymptomatic patient. An alternative approach might be close observation initially, with chemotherapy at the time of disease recurrence.

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Medical Oncology · Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
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I completely agree with @Dr. First Last. The question is when you will treat (sooner rather than later), not whether. Recurrence is virtually certain. NGS sequencing here may be the most important aspect of the care.

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Medical Oncology · NYU Winthrop Hospital
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6 months: Cisplatin/Gemcitabine

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Medical Oncology · Cancer Treatment Centers of America at Southeastern Regional Medical Center
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I would get NGS and then, offer appropriate therapy.

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