kennyt wrote:Grouseman, do you know why the xelox standard is eight rounds and the folfox seems like most people do twelve?
kennyt wrote:Grouseman, do you know why the xelox standard is eight rounds and the folfox seems like most people do twelve?
kennyt wrote:Grouseman, do you know why the xelox standard is eight rounds and the folfox seems like most people do twelve?
NCCN Rectal Cancer Guidelines wrote:The use of a shorter course of adjuvant FOLFOX in rectal cancer (ie, 4 months) is justified when preoperative chemoRT is administered.
Swede wrote:I just got the results of my last scans. Everything looks good. So it seems my strategy of only four rounds xeloda, no oxaliplatin and no radiation paid off.
No more follow ups. The hospital considers me cured. Only colonoscopies every five years. Now I am almost down to the same cancer risk as the rest of the population.
NZJay wrote:
Congratulations! Is 3 years NED the standard for "cured" where you live?
Here in nz, we only ct scan stage 3 annually until 3 years post resection and then monitor blood for a further 2 years before calling it "cured".
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