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Would you treat elderly patients with early-stage gastric cancer with perioperative FOLFOX or FLO (FLOT without T)?

How would the duration of 5FU infusion impact response?
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Medical Oncology · Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
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I am actually not sure why the official FLOT regimen used a 24-hour 5FU infusion. In the progression from the Mayo 5-day bolus regimen and the Roswell Park weekly regimen, the use of infusional 5FU reduced the toxicity of combinations with oxaliplatin and irinotecan. See the NCCTG N9741 study (Goldb...

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Medical Oncology · Dartmouth Cancer Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
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My practice in this setting, where docetaxel is omitted from gastric cancer adjuvant therapy due to concerns about toxicity in the elderly, would be to use the FOLFOX regimen (with a 46-hour 5-FU infusion). To my knowledge, there are no efficacy data to guide the decision between a FLO-type regimen ...

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