David Palma, Radiation Oncologist at London Health Sciences Centre and Professor at Western University, shared a post on X:
“Great paper in JAMA Oncology assessing the time period for cure after for colon cancer. It’s 6 years. “Cure” is defined as when the risk of recurrence is <0.5%. Very reasonable.”
Title: The Definition of Cure in Colon Cancer: A Pooled Analysis of 15 Randomized Clinical Trials
Authors: Alessandro Pastorino, Heshan Liu, Levi Pederson, Valentino Martelli, Timothy Iveson, Aimery de Gramont, Steven R. Alberts, Thomas J. George, Greg Yothers, Andrea Harkin, Roberto Labianca, Julien Taieb, Hans-Joachim Schmoll, Chris Twelves, Norman Wolmark, Leonard B. Saltz, Ioannis Souglakos, Richard M. Goldberg, Rachel Kerr, Sara Lonardi, Takayuki Yoshino, Alberto Puccini, Thierry André, Qian Shi, Alberto Sobrero
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