Why Give Adjuvant Chemotherapy, and to Which Patients?
Dr. Heather Wakelee, Stanford University Medical Center, discusses the purpose of adjuvant chemotherapy, and which patients benefit most from it.
Dr. Heather Wakelee, Stanford University Medical Center, discusses the purpose of adjuvant chemotherapy, and which patients benefit most from it.
Dr. Nathan Pennell, Cleveland Clinic, reviews the available trial evidence for the use of targeted therapies in the post-operative/adjuvant setting.
Does it make sense to do molecular testing on early stage lung cancer patients? Dr. Taofeek Owonikoko of Emory University School of Medicine and the Winship Cancer Institute thinks it does in some settings. February 2014
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Dr. Heather Wakelee of Stanford University Medical Center talks about how studies looking into Avastin (bevacizumab) for early stage lung cancer patients are progressing. February 2014.
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While post-operative chemotherapy for early stage NSCLC is a well-established standard for relatively healthy patients with stage II or higher resected cancers, the question of whether adjuvant chemotherapy is more likely to help or hurt a patient remains more a matter of debate.
Continuing with this series of case-based podcasts we've done in partnership with LUNGevity, we'll again have a series of experts offer their own perspective to another challenging scenario. All are with the same format of me hosting and presenting the case to Drs. Bob Doebele from University of Colorado and Jyoti Patel from Northwestern University, who participated in the live webinar version of this, then followed in the recording by other terrific colleagues of mine weighing on the same case. These experts are:
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