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Dr. Jack West is a medical oncologist and thoracic oncology specialist who is the Founder and previously served as President & CEO, currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Resource for Advancing Cancer Education (GRACE)

 

Case in Point: Recommending Post-Operative Chemo for a Patient with a Smaller NSCLC Tumor but High-Risk Features
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Howard (Jack) West, MD

This is the first in a series of "uncut" videos that I'm starting that will focus on illustrative cases from my clinic that highlight some broader teaching points.  This particular video is on the decision-making process that led me to recommend adjuvant chemotherapy for a patient who underwent surgery for a 3.5 cm lung adenocarcinoma without lymph node involvement. Though this size is under the threshold we often use for recommending post-operative chemo, which is 4 cm, her particular cancer had some other features that made me concerned it may represent a high enough risk to favor additional treatment, in combination with her overall good health and desire to pursue a more aggressive approach if there is a good rationale for it.

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As always, I'd welcome your thoughts, questions, objections, etc., as well as any feedback you want to offer about the format of using clinical cases to review broader concepts.  And any ideas for topics are also welcome.

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