Patients with localized colorectal cancer without lymph node involvement have an excellent prognosis and most of them will not need adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery. However, a group of them, with poor prognostic features, will need treatment with post-operative chemotherapy to increase their probability of long-term survival.
In this educational video of the 'How To' series, Andrés Cervantes explains how to treat a T3N0M0 colon cancer with adjuvant chemotherapy.
Sargent D, et al. J Clin Oncol, 27(6), 2009: 872-877. Reprinted with permission. © 2009. American Society of Clinical Oncology. All rights reserved.
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31 июл 2024
